I’m noticing that it’s hard to find negative comments about it on “official” sites. You can post them on Mozillazine, but it looks like it’s the only place the dissenters have to post comments without getting treated like you missed a serving of Kooliad. Please let your friends know Peng and I want any kind of comments, both positive and negative, to our posts. I only delete posts that are clearly spam or outright flames. Dissension is good, treating someone like they’re a moron for not agreeing with someone else is bad. Although if you do something really stupid like redesign a community website that is so much less usable than the old version we’ll call you on it. Just like if you set up blog comments that insist on identifying a commenter by their email addy. (I’m looking at you, Major League Baseball.)

I have to say one thing for sure. The new AMO could be the one thing that keeps me using Firefox 3.0 when it comes out. The new Get Add-ons tab in the Addons Manager is about the only thing that can shield me from having to use AMO. If an addon isn’t available via the new tab and I don’t have a developer’s website to get it from I honestly don’t need to use the addon. I am leaning heavily to roll back to Fx2 once Fx3 is out and I write a final review of it. Of course one added benefit is that I have just about everything I want for Firefox 2 (so much is still unavailable for fx3, like OSX-look themes for Linux users) that I may never need AMO again if I stay with Fx2. God knows there’s so much info that I can no longer get from the site since the redesign.

Now I understand why CatThief and other addon devs refuse to have their addons listed on AMO. They’ve managed to avoid the spike in their blood pressure without even trying.

Why don’t I file or vote for bugs about Abomination.Mozilla.org? Because I doubt that the best solution will ever be used, no matter how much sense it makes. The solution? To admit that their fresh out of college “designers” have well and truly screwed the pooch on this one, to eat the money they paid for the upgrade, and to roll back to the old interface. Or at the very least give us the option of using the “old school” AMO interface and not the crap that got rolled out with so little warning to anyone. I’ve wasted enough bandwidth trying to point out that if Mozilla says betas of Fx3 are not for everyone than it has no business being the default browser for Ubuntu Hardy. I’m not wasting any of Bugzilla’s bandwidth even addressing the new abomination or mine dealing with bugs that might as well get flagged WONTFIX. My doctor’s pretty glad, too. My blood pressure got way too fraking high since the upgrade.

@Nanc:
It’s too bad you’ve closed your SL store. I wonder how a “Frak AMO” tee would sell. I know I’d want to buy one, and I’m almost never on SL anymore.

As a user not a developer, I can’t find a darn thing now…

I posted complaints at the referenced site that were deleted…