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Exactly. Anyone remember when Firefox extensions broke recently? I thought it was a rather horrible experience. If the new Firefox Preview can natively block

Exactly. Anyone remember when Firefox extensions broke recently? I thought it was a rather horrible experience. If the new Firefox Preview can natively block advertisements, whitelist sites, disable third party cookies, prevent and hide social trackers, block anti-ad-blockers, etc. etc. then I agree that extensions are kind of useless, and I understand Mozilla's point. However, I see the lack of extension support detrimental to my freedoms as a user, since it means I no longer can control what the software hides for me, nor what it broadcasts about me to the abyss of waste that is the advertising industry; I will have to trust the browser, and the lack of extension support is a rather untrustworthy property to begin with.

throwupaway123 7y ago
This is still a preview, it's nowhere near a finished product. Extensions come after MVP https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/662#issuecomment-477905130 https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/662#issuecomm...
- metalliqaz 7y ago
  (minimum viable product) Isn't it strange that the big flash announcement comes before MVP?
  - trickstra 7y ago
    Yes, that's what "viable" means. Viable for big flashy announcement.
  - yorwba 7y ago
    The big flash announcement is to get early adopters for testing. There's no reason to delay testing until the MVP is ready, as long as testers remain aware that Firefox Preview is a preview that shouldn't be expected to already have all features implemented.
    - dsr_ 7y ago
      It's just that, for me and a bunch of other people, we would be happy to test a preview if we could compare it against our current browsers. We can't, because advertising is an abomination that destroys the utility of the internet and so there's no fair comparison.
  - mncolinlee 7y ago
    This release is what they termed MVP. Everything after it is post-MVP. It means minimum viable product. In my personal opinion, a lot more functionality was included than what most would call an MVP.
- anoncake 7y ago
  There is no minimum viable product here. The MVP was the first usable mobile Firefox. A version of Firefox without extension support is just broken.

throwupaway123 7y ago

This is still a preview, it's nowhere near a finished product. Extensions come after MVP https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/662#issuecomment-477905130 https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/662#issuecomm...

metalliqaz 7y ago
(minimum viable product) Isn't it strange that the big flash announcement comes before MVP?
- trickstra 7y ago
  Yes, that's what "viable" means. Viable for big flashy announcement.
- yorwba 7y ago
  The big flash announcement is to get early adopters for testing. There's no reason to delay testing until the MVP is ready, as long as testers remain aware that Firefox Preview is a preview that shouldn't be expected to already have all features implemented.
  - dsr_ 7y ago
    It's just that, for me and a bunch of other people, we would be happy to test a preview if we could compare it against our current browsers. We can't, because advertising is an abomination that destroys the utility of the internet and so there's no fair comparison.
- mncolinlee 7y ago
  This release is what they termed MVP. Everything after it is post-MVP. It means minimum viable product. In my personal opinion, a lot more functionality was included than what most would call an MVP.
anoncake 7y ago
There is no minimum viable product here. The MVP was the first usable mobile Firefox. A version of Firefox without extension support is just broken.