In recent Mozilla Firebird builds, the otherwise standerdized way of displaying the application name in the window titles has been removed, where you would normally see “My blog – Mozilla Firebird”, there is now only “My Blog” and nothing when opening a new tab, I therefore wrote… in anger, this post to the Firebird forum
The Firebird developers needs to realize that while THEY may like that the title does not contain ” – Mozilla Firebird” the rest of the world doesn’t…
I am extremely surprised by the act of adding this … FEATURE…. It does not seem like the true spirit of Mozilla, or opensource, to forcefully implement a feature which has no backing by the target audience, only by the developers themselves.
A vote should clearly have been made, or a post the a newsgroup, about this feature… While I respect the developers in creating this wonderful browser, they should also realize that what THEY may like, is not necessarily what the rest of us (or the end-users) like.
And instead of saying “no comment” or closing bugs filed about the issue.. they should make their case for this change, because I see NO LOGIC in it’s existence
It should be noted that I wrote this right after watching “revolution OS”, which sparked this post. While it may seem harsh, I really do not understand why developers ignore the tons of comments and objections about this “feature”. The very least the developers could do was to make their case about the change, but no…
Update: Dave Hyatt argues that since nobody ever saw the “Mozilla Firebird” part in their taskbar anyway, there was no need for it.. At the same time he says it caused problems on Mac… Well buhu! Then make it go away on Macs… I don’t want my favorite product spoiled by Mac…
If it ain’t broken.. DONT FIX IT!