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Ugh. Now I need to choose between disabling updates for Firefox, which is a pretty big security risk, and giving up UMatrix, which I also consider to be at leas

Ugh. Now I need to choose between disabling updates for Firefox, which is a pretty big security risk, and giving up UMatrix, which I also consider to be at least somewhat of a security risk. It's such a questionable decision. I understand that addons take a while to support, I understand for most users it's still an upgrade since they don't use extensions, I understand that at some point you need real users instead of just beta-testers. But they're taking a huge step backwards for user freedom. It's a bad look for Mozilla. I'm disappointed. I wish they'd develop the apps in parallel until they had actual feature parity. Even if the old version of Firefox got pushed to a separate app; I'd be fine uninstalling Firefox and reinstalling 'Firefox Classic' from Mozilla. I feel like they don't really understand what the community response to this is going to be.

Macha 7y ago
Yeah, I'm not a hardcore extension user on mobile, and even then losing HTTPS Everywhere is going to suck (HSTS isn't everywhere still).
kozziollek 7y ago
I never used uMatrix, but as far as I am aware uBlock Origin has the same functionality if you check "I am an advanced user" in settings. See: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium-mode https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium...
- cobby 7y ago
  No. uMatrux offers way more granular control.
  - 0-_-0 7y ago
    I don't know about that, but it breaks some of uBlock's functionality: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/706xrr/umatrix_vs_ublock_origin_medium_blocking_mode/dn1goxr/ https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/706xrr/umatrix_vs_...
4bpp 7y ago
How big a security risk is it, really? Firefox Mobile apparently has a 0.66% usage share, which is lower than desktop Linux, and desktop Linux anecdotally is pretty much a non-target for malware authors. I, for my part, blocked my FF Mobile autoupdates upon reading this and am not going to lose a lot of sleep over the possibility that some malicious website would choose to target me over the Chrome/Safari users. (I would also suspect, without concrete evidence, that an average default mobile browser user has more valuable data on their phone - Firefox seems like the browser of choice for the same sort of refuseniks who would still do most of their online banking and what-not on PC only rather than installing their bank's app)
- Wowfunhappy 7y ago
  I agree, particularly if the OS itself is up to date, but it's kind of irrelevant—if GP wants the web to keep working, they'll have to upgrade relatively soon.

Macha 7y ago

Yeah, I'm not a hardcore extension user on mobile, and even then losing HTTPS Everywhere is going to suck (HSTS isn't everywhere still).

kozziollek 7y ago

I never used uMatrix, but as far as I am aware uBlock Origin has the same functionality if you check "I am an advanced user" in settings. See: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium-mode https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium...

cobby 7y ago
No. uMatrux offers way more granular control.
- 0-_-0 7y ago
  I don't know about that, but it breaks some of uBlock's functionality: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/706xrr/umatrix_vs_ublock_origin_medium_blocking_mode/dn1goxr/ https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/706xrr/umatrix_vs_...

4bpp 7y ago

How big a security risk is it, really? Firefox Mobile apparently has a 0.66% usage share, which is lower than desktop Linux, and desktop Linux anecdotally is pretty much a non-target for malware authors. I, for my part, blocked my FF Mobile autoupdates upon reading this and am not going to lose a lot of sleep over the possibility that some malicious website would choose to target me over the Chrome/Safari users. (I would also suspect, without concrete evidence, that an average default mobile browser user has more valuable data on their phone - Firefox seems like the browser of choice for the same sort of refuseniks who would still do most of their online banking and what-not on PC only rather than installing their bank's app)

Wowfunhappy 7y ago
I agree, particularly if the OS itself is up to date, but it's kind of irrelevant—if GP wants the web to keep working, they'll have to upgrade relatively soon.