said by OZO:What I'm trying to say is turning ON / OFF switch is just a tip of the iceberg for security zone configuration. It's considerably deeper than that. In this development if you said 'A', then you should say 'B' as well (if you know what I mean).
Yes. It goes much deeper than that. My proposal concentrated on the ability to cleanly and clearly provide a means to turn off the functionality. Changing the value to "true", however, does get us back to the question of, "What interface do we use to change the settings?". For better or for worse, for now it is only available through the Windows interface.
said by OZO:And finally,
FF is integrating into the existing system rather than just recreating a different version of it is not what I want to happen. We already have one web browser that some claim is an integrated part of the OS. I do now want to have yet another one with the same claim. Web browser should not be an integrated part of any OS. That's my strong opinion.
Nothing wrong with a strong opinion.
"Integration" brings some strongly negative connotations in the context of Internet Explorer. Integration that forces users into something they may not wish or that stifles fair trade and competition is the kind we don't want to see. On the other hand, integration can be good, integration has many different tiers from loose-integration to breaks-if-you-remove-it-integration, and all software that is installed on any platform has to "fit in", so to speak, on some level to even run.
A very simple and benign bit of integration, I think you will agree, is that FF 3.0 looks different in Windows versus its appearance in Linux, even going as far as foregoing the new style back-forward buttons in Linux so that it fits in better with the Linux environment (that, of course is the Mozilla teams opinion).
Let's just say that integration is an integral (pun intended) part of computing. The good news in the case under discussion here is that the integration does not approach the level of integration (the really bad kind) usually implied when discussing IE and Windows.