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=== Risk === | === Risk === | ||
* While it is always risky to change something that has over 12 weeks of testing, this backout doesn't seem too risky: | * While it is always risky to change something that has over 12 weeks of testing, this backout doesn't seem too risky: | ||
** Fairly compartmentalized | ** Fairly compartmentalized code | ||
** Reverting to a known good state | ** Reverting to a known good state | ||
** Test runs are green | |||
** Backed out for a week on mozilla-beta, mozilla-aurora, and mozilla-central | |||
* Surveyed add-ons that adapted to the new code / APIs, only one (Vertical Tabs) had updated and it is created by a Mozilla employee who will change it back | * Surveyed add-ons that adapted to the new code / APIs, only one (Vertical Tabs) had updated and it is created by a Mozilla employee who will change it back | ||
** We will not be creating more work for add-on authors by backing this out or breaking already "fixed" add-ons | ** We will not be creating more work for add-on authors by backing this out or breaking already "fixed" add-ons | ||
* No risk of angering current Firefox users as they never saw the feature in the release channel | * No risk of angering current Firefox users as they never saw the feature in the release channel | ||