People upset by the "bro" word. Peak Mozilla.
From (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366559#c147):
“I received a series of 'bro' jokes in response to my posting about this new feature.”
This proves that the name “bro” actually has significant meaning for many people, some of which find it a bad thing. This would be unnecessarily distracting, so it should simply be replaced with something like br, btl, bli or bti.
Save your outrage for when the solution actually has a downside of any significance.
But this is not the part why people are pissed. If this would be the only reason then everybody would be fine, but before your quote the guy wrote:
> "bro" has a gender problem, even though the dual meaning is unintentional. It comes of misogynistic [...]
And this reasoning is just tumblerlina-SRS-gamergate-outrage-bullshit. People are not pissed because of the change of the extension but by the ridiculous reason given in the bug report.
They should have just stated that ".bro" might result in acceptance problems in large corporate culture and everybody would have understood this. But stating that .bro has a gender problem is just crazy.
In cases like this, much of the outrage stems not from dissatisfaction with any particular solution, but from people being offended that the concern was taken seriously at all.
No doubt the same people who snickered at the name of the Nintento Wii and Apple iPad.
That said I think the current trend of limiting not just insults but whatever can possibly be construed as an insult by anyone, -that might not be a smart move in the long run. Especially as some people seems very good at getting insulted.
That said, the commenters stereotyping of "bro"s as misogynist is offensive in and of itself. I know MANY bro's who treat women with respect. Stereotyping any group of people is hurtful and wrong.