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> Saying "To give users more control over their extensions, support for sideloaded extensions will be discontinued." Also seems disingenuous at best... Isn't t
by megous 7y ago
> Saying "To give users more control over their extensions, support for sideloaded extensions will be discontinued." Also seems disingenuous at best...
Isn't this how distributions install browser extensions from package repositories? Now I can pacman -S an extension. With this change I will not be able to.
More control, right.
- londons_explore 7y agoPresumably pacman -S will still work, but on first run, Firefox will then ask if you really want the extension installed, listing it's permissions etc. I think that's pretty fair. Lots of other software that interacts/loads into another bit of software requires manual configuration.
- jraph 7y agoI guess distributions may be able to build a Firefox version that would load extensions installed using the package manager without prompt.