FireFox: Next time, don't be so shy about running the betas. Perhaps stuff like this would get caught and fixed sooner if folks like you ran betas more often
Perhaps he didn't want to use buggy versions of the software. We were always pretty careful about public beta versions, but I still suspect that a silent majority of owners have never used a beta version, and a fair minority (at least once new players shipped with 1.x) have never applied an upgrade at all...

Peter