Re: The perils of prefixing... or rather trying to unprefix

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>  E.g. the current Firefox versions don't offer a way to open the release
>> notes
>> anymore.
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> Which would have done absolutely no good in this case, yes?
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>
>  So you can't see immediately what has changed.
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> Seriously?
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> http://www.bing.com/search?q=**firefox+16+release+notes<http://www.bing.com/search?q=firefox+16+release+notes>
> https://www.google.com/search?**q=firefox+16+release+notes<https://www.google.com/search?q=firefox+16+release+notes>
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> It's the first hit for both.

The first hit in Google is a link to the Mozilla wiki for me.


> Someone who actually wants to read the release notes (not most users),
> sure can.

Right. But it's a little harder as before and not directly available
through the browser anymore.


> You missed that I was speaking of a general strategy in releasing
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>> changes like these.
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> A general strategy that would not help with the problem at hand, hence is
> irrelevant here....

You're right. So let's get back to the main discussion.

François' remarks sound promising and would have helped in this case.
Though after all it's still up to the library authors to handle different
configurations correctly.

Sebastian