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The "personal dotfile" that's lives in the same repo as the extension and is recommended as an example in its documentation, and only documents these commends as "Add helper commands that Mozillians think make Firefox irredeemably insecure". If you want to signal to a reviewer you're not taking them seriously, that's the kind of thing to do when they ask you to remove code.

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`fixamo` was first removed after an informal request via informal channels from someone on the Firefox security team. The comment wasn't intended as a jab at a reviewer who didn't exist at that time; I was just tickling myself as is my wont.

I'm sorry if it offended anyone. I'm generally really appreciative of the work reviewers do.

Ah, I had missed that aspect. That paints it in a different light.

In our defence

1. that's a perfectly sensible comment to suggest that you should probably look it up on your own if you care about security.

2. The command did document exactly what it did in the same manner (or more detail) as the blogs we got it from.

3. We invited Mozilla to provide text for us to comment it with and they didn't give us any.

Edit: And as bovine3dom says, this was done in response to an informal request by someone reasonably friendly to the project.

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