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That was when they first started requiring all extensions/add-ons to be signed by Mozilla before allowing them to be used in your browser. From that point on us
by superkuh 6y ago
That was when they first started requiring all extensions/add-ons to be signed by Mozilla before allowing them to be used in your browser. From that point on users couldn't edit their installed extensions or use extensions from outside the pool of Moz approved ones.
And yes, I know that some linux Distros that believe in software freedom have negotiated to be able to provide Firefox without this lock-down (ie, Debian), and that if you use the well hidden unbranded builds available in no repos it's possible too.
But 37 was when Moz decided that users shouldn't get a choice and it's been downhill ever since.
- rockdoe 6y agoif you use the well hidden unbranded builds available in no repos it's possible too This is a very weak argument given that it works in the Developer version.
- superkuh 6y agoIt is not acceptable to suggest using an alpha/beta as a main daily driver. You may not encounter bugs but they certainly do exist. There's a reason that the developer edition is not the release edition. And yes, developer edition is an alpha/beta. Specifically it's the renamed aurora channel which was the renamed alpha. But these days it functions as more of a beta.
- rockdoe 6y agoI think it's quite reasonable to suggest power users to use such a specific version. Especially as the signing is presumably to prevent non-power users from getting malicious ones, which is a real problem. As you admit, the Developer edition is very stable and from the name targeted at exactly the kind of people that want to run their custom extensions. It's not like Minefield nightlies back in the day!
- badsectoracula 6y agoFWIW i've been using developer edition for a long while now so that i can run my own extensions without having to ask for Mozilla's permission and never had any issues. The main annoyance is that it wants to update every other day but that is a minor thing.
- superkuh 6y agoI'm curious, what operating system do you use? Because I have run into a lot of developer edition crashes on linux over the years re: webgl and all that fancy stuff that isn't normally enabled in release.
- badsectoracula 6y agoWindows 10. TBH i very rarely visit any site with WebGL (that i know of), though it does seem to work by visiting some shadertoy pages.
- vetinari 6y agoDeveloper edition is unstable, somewhere between nightly and beta; there is no stable build provided by Mozilla. Only Debian (ESR) and Fedora (stable).
- Wowfunhappy 6y ago> and that if you use the well hidden unbranded builds available in no repos it's possible too. Except those builds don’t have an updater, which is kind of a major QOL problem in a web browser.
- moron4hire 6y agoMoz is a different company