<div dir="ltr"><div>This hidden pref was hardly a "feature" in the general sense of that word. There is a small minority of very vocal users for whom it was important, and probably the best way to target messaging to them is with a blog post that is Google-able and linked to from Firefox-enthusiast forums (MozillaZine, or r/firefox, ghacks, etc.). A short post in this case may have been useful, though in this case it took the removal of the pref to prompt someone to write the add-on.<br>
<br></div><div>Gavin<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Eric Shepherd <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eshepherd@mozilla.com" target="_blank">eshepherd@mozilla.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Should we start including reminders about AMO (and/or links to specific add-ons) when features are removed, to help people transition?</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">
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</div> <br><p style="color:#000">On July 31, 2014 at 1:41:21 PM, Gavin Sharp (<a href="mailto:gavin@gavinsharp.com" target="_blank">gavin@gavinsharp.com</a>) wrote:</p> <blockquote type="cite"><span><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none">Thankfully, because Firefox add-ons are so awesome, you can easily get<span> </span></span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none">the functionality you desire back:<span> </span></span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">
<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabs-closebutton-restored/" style="font-family:helvetica;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" target="_blank">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabs-closebutton-restored/</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none"><span> </span></span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">
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