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And then Mozilla wonders why people don't use Firefox.
by happynacho 5y ago
And then Mozilla wonders why people don't use Firefox.
- SilasX 5y agoYes, this kind of thing just shouldn't happen after the "sudden global outage of all add-ons [incl. privacy ones]", followed "no, no, don't worry guys, we forced out a fix via a secret backdoor!" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19823701 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19823701
- kosasbest 5y ago> [incl. privacy ones] I remember when all my privacy extensions were entirely absent and I accidentally surfed the web. I felt so vulnerable after that, as if I surfed the web bareback
- kelnos 5y agoThe vast majority of users are not extension developers. I'd not heard of this issue until now. It sucks, but it wouldn't make me decide to stop using the browser.
- happynacho 5y agoYou're not looking at the full picture. Mozilla's pure incompetence to even maintain their addons ecosystem. Remember when all live addons failed due to a cert failure? Besides dumbing down the browser now they can't even seem to get addons running smoothly. Extensions/addons are a core part of a modern browser.