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> Apple does the very same thing. As my dear old mom used to say, 'if everyone else were jumping off a bridge, would you?' The fact that Apple constrain their
by zeveb 8y ago
> Apple does the very same thing.
As my dear old mom used to say, 'if everyone else were jumping off a bridge, would you?' The fact that Apple constrain their users doesn't justify Mozilla doing the same.
My browser belongs to me, not to Mozilla and not to anyone else: I should be able to load any extension into it that I wish to, just as I should be able to load any program onto my phone or install any root cert in my operating system.
- zaarn 8y ago"if everyone goes off and gets vaccinated, would you?" Apple constraints their users for certain reasons which they believe are good for the user (with some negative side effects that Apple also likes). Mozilla likely has a similar motive; doing good for their users. It doesn't mean every user will be happy with that, the average user will however be better off. The non-average user can then install the developer or nightly edition of firefox or even compile it themselves too get unsigned addongs if they so choose. Choosing the branded release branch of firefox means that Mozilla wants to keep you safe to some extend. This means not allowing third parties to install arbitrary addons into your browser, for example. Users rarely know what they want or if they do, they go about it in destructive ways. Install the developer edition and you get your "I want to be able to load any extension".
- SilasX 8y agoAlso, Apple doesn't ground their existence in "we want software to be Free (as in Freedom) and we want you to be able to control your own device to do what you want". If anything, they want something that's mostly opposite.[1] Mozilla does claim to live up to that standard. [1] This isn't to say they're wrong; there are legit reasons to want a device with good defaults that are hard to bypass.