Are you surprised? Mozilla's "confused messaging" has let some people continue to think there's some kind of chance that currently available Complete Themes could be mildly hacked to work in the new UI. Mozilla needs to be HONEST and let people know that that is not even remotely a possibility. Even if they wanted to, it is a basic technological impossibility that a current Complete Theme could be made to work with an HTML-based interface without a complete and total line-for-line rewrite. And I'm sorry if my language offends people, but for me the fact that Mozilla refuses to come clean on this issue is nothing short of LYING to save face.malliz wrote:Many of them seem more interested in keeping their own favorite theme..... same old same old
They are also being rather meek in letting extension developers know what's really going to happen with XUL extensions.... heck, addons compatibility notes for Firefox 44 include changes to XPCOM. Why in the heck is Mozilla even bothering to tweak XPCOM when it's going to be completely ripped out? The only sensible explanation is that either the developers don't really know what's happening, or they are just chugging along doing their jobs so they appear to be useful so they won't get canned. Which I honestly think has been a big part of what's been happening with all of the useless constant changes we've been seeing over the last few years... developers just trying to appear useful so they don't get kicked to the curb. What a bureaucratic nightmare.