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Why wouldn't firefox be able to add those preferences by default?
by yipbub 7y ago
Why wouldn't firefox be able to add those preferences by default?
- vetinari 7y agoWhy should it? There's already a preference, called system setting. The system administrator configured something, it is not app job to duplicate or override that.
- WorldMaker 7y agoIn the early days of web browsers, the browsers like Firefox implemented early SSL/TLS ahead of OS vendors. To this day, Firefox still maintains and bundles its own Root CA list, and by default prefers its own list over OS provided lists. There's certainly precedence for web browsers doing things ahead of OS/system support because they can do it faster, and because maybe they think their users' (privacy and/or security) needs can't wait for deeper OS/system support. (Also, for an increasing number of people, a browser isn't just "an app", it is their real OS where they spend the most time.)