"- But I could just download gst-plugins-ugly and I'd be OK. - That's a selfish attitude. Everyone should be able to browse the Web with a free software stack without having to jump through arcane hoops to download and install software (whose use is legally questionable)."<p>I'll tell you what's selfish: going out of your way to cripple the experience of your users just so your extremist ideological views can prevail (and they won't anyway).<p>I don't think the deliberate weakening of the #1 open-source browser over such trivial matters is a win either, ideological or otherwise.<p>I love Firefox and I hope this sorry state of affairs will be quickly resolved sensibly before irrecoverable damage has been done.<p>&#60;/opiniated&#62;