Firefox 48 released – supporting process separation

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28 points·binaryanomaly··6 comments

Have you noticed that shift in release notes rhetoric? I cannot recall seeing such pseudo-cool-worded-wannabe-funny release notes with questionable punctuation ever before.

> "Roar for moar / We've got your back / Try saying that three times fast / Buh-bye, squeaky voice! / hot, hot, hot! / embetterment / …"

I hope this is not a beginning of standard discourse towards users, because as I've found out I prefer previous boring and concise one.

No, I didn't.

But thanks for pointing it out - horrible...

Those aren't whole entries, they're occasional "color" in still-descriptive entries. Lighten up. More companies should have a unified "voice", even in technical documentation.

I agree, entries are still sufficiently descriptive, but from my subjective point of view this "color / lightening" is absolutely redundant in this specific context. And worse: for me it even adds disruptive noise to the message: To be honest, as a very bad English language user I am in fact happy if I do not struggle understanding the basic message and decoding any extra non-technical jargon and bending my brain around some idioms I never met before is extra effort I'd like to avoid in this case. (But it might as well be just a sign that I am not the target audience (anymore).)

It will only be enabled for a percentage of users, and one of the criteria for not enabling it is having an extension.

That's a lot of stuff to release all at once...

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