Pissing users off
It seems some people don't like the new about:config warning in Firefox 3.0. The sad thing is this message was not intended to piss people off.
The localization note intended for translaters reads:
<!-- LOCALIZATION NOTE: aboutWarningTitle.label should be attention grabbing and playful -->
It's not even necessarily talking about warranty in other locales:
<!ENTITY aboutWarningTitle.label "Attention, danger !"> (fr)
<!ENTITY aboutWarningTitle.label "¡Zona hostil para manazas!"> (es-ES)
<!ENTITY aboutWarningTitle.label "Here be dragons!"> (en-GB)
Seems like the en-US version has a strange definition of playful.
2008-06-25 20:40:28+0900
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2008-06-25 23:18:29+0900
Being one of the ranters you complain about – Yes, I completely agree. If it were playful and not lawyer-like, I’d have not ranted ;-)
2008-06-26 00:51:34+0900
Reading the train-wreck of a bug that led to that message is educational:
All the decision makers there should be smacked, and Majken Connor put in charge of similar future issues on grounds of being the only sane one.
2008-06-26 00:53:16+0900
Cute, the link was eaten, let’s try again…
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=404661
(bug 404661 if it’s still munched)