Is the old “search engine” page still around somewhere?

I check the add-ons page every week (cuz, yes I *am* that anal-retentive), and, with a date, I know how far I need to go, until I’m looking at stuff I saw the previous week. Without a date, there’s no way to tell.

I would imagine it wouldn’t be that hard to place a date field on the main page, so that each entry had a date — then, sorting would be more meaningful, as well.

Just for the record, I’m not being defensive. Let’s stick to the issues and try not to introduce emotive language, OK?

Your original reply to me appeared to be attempting to reduce the weight of my argument by demonstrating that far fewer people were dissatisfied than I suggested, while not addressing the issues raised. That’s all I was responding to.

Posting rationales and, to my eye, a round of self congratulations doesn’t amount to much when so many people are clearly unhappy and pointing out the reasons why.

It’s been two weeks since the AMO team announced the release and have remained silent to the wide-ranging criticism since then. That’s poor PR, at best.

We all screw up at times – it’s how you respond that’s critical.

I didn’t make any value judgement about the the stats or the criticisms – I measured and reported on the only link cited. Don’t be so defensive – you aren’t the poor devil getting flamed on your own blog by an angry mob (and neither am I this time.)

For my part, I’m happy that Basil and crew are publicly posting the rationale for their changes. Regardless of whether or not they did great work, royally screwed up or some of both, the information (and the capturing of people’s reactions) is still useful within Mozilla and for other FLOSS projects.

It is unbelievable that the two most fundamental pieces of information that anyone would want to know; Version Number & Date, are two tiers down… But, it looks good.

With the recent issues with AMO, and the lack of reliability of the new FF versions, the apparent bureaucracy creep, and segregation from their users community I spent the weekend setting up Opera. If Opera gets a decent AdBlock or I figure it out better… I’m gone.

Sad to see an organization succumb to the very attributes of the competitors that allowed it be born.

Regards

Luckily, google was able to find the plgins page for me.

Can no longer see stuff like this:
“Works with: Firefox: 2.0.0.8 – 3.0b4″ next to the download/install button:”

I agree with he above poster, please, please, please bring this back.

I am not planning on upgrading to ffx 3.0 until I know that all my major extensions are compatible. I need to know what versions are acceptable for any given extension.

Please, please, please, bring this back!

* The new UI is bad for beta testers. It usually takes weeks for extension developers to even bump their extension, if they care at all. There’s no info about what version an extension is compatible with. If I’m using fx3b5 an extension for fx3b5pre might just work. An extension for fx1.5 probably won’t. The worst thing is that with the new UI I can’t even download the extension to bump it myself if my firefox is a higher version. (Funnily the install links in version history aren’t disabled, as if an older version were more likely to work with my newer browser.)