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I had never heard of this Normandy nonsense. I have certainly never willingly enabled it. Yet according to my preferences, it's enabled. And apparently it's a f
by Tharkun 7y ago
I had never heard of this Normandy nonsense. I have certainly never willingly enabled it. Yet according to my preferences, it's enabled. And apparently it's a feature that lets Mozilla remotely mess with my preferences. What the actual fuck? When did Firefox go from being a privacy-conscious browser to being this pile of nonsense? I'm not amused.
- dralley 7y agoAn important detail is that it only changes the default preferences. It will not change anything that you have changed yourself.
- jimrandomh 7y agoMost large software projects have something like this. The typical use case is rolling out a feature gradually, to limit the number of users impacted if a new feature has problems: first you include the feature in a release, but disabled by default; then you turn it on for a small percentage of users. If instrumentation from those users reports crashes, you abort; otherwise, you enable it for everyone else.