Catwalker

What is wrong with the current crop of open source programmers? On the heels of Ubuntu's Unity and Gnome 3 shell is Firefox 4. Overall I don't mind Firefox 4, but why do the current crop of programmers have to change things so drastically? Sometimes users will install updated software and find old stand bys (which worked) taken and replaced by something grossly obscure. I am referring in this case to the padlock. What? The Padlock? Yes, the padlock. I went to a secure sight today (one which I had gone to in the past with previous versions of Firefox) and the padlock was no where to be seen. What happened, I thought to myself. Is the sight no longer secure? I looked and looked in settings but couldn't find that icon anywhere. Off to Google, my search revealed that it was gone and replaced by a more obscure "identity button". Well done guys. Why are programmers deciding they know what's best for the community? Why replace something which everyone who uses these features are familiar with? This is not a specific poke at the Firefox team, it's all of us who code or create interfaces. This seems to be an adoption of the Micro$oft way; changing things either for something to do, or changing things because you can. じゃ　また