Well, I am exaggerating a bit. But …
I am maintaining some small Firefox extension (SmTuning – my bunch of improvements to the SchemingMind web interface). To make things smooth, I tested it on some Firefox3 betas. It was a pain due to the famous insecure updates problem. Resolving it costed some time and effort, but I am glad with the solution.
Then Firefox3 final arrived and … everything stopped to work. My scripts and stylesheets were not loaded anymore, bundled images failed to display. Ups. I resolved this too, the fix was trivial, but here I feel something is terribly wrong. And is scheduled to be a big problem in the future.
Let’s go through both those problems.
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