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Yet I pick a Chromium based browser because Firefox is awfully anti-user. I still can't load extensions that are not Mozilla-approved, a major deal breaker for

Yet I pick a Chromium based browser because Firefox is awfully anti-user. I still can't load extensions that are not Mozilla-approved, a major deal breaker for me. Then there's the "news" (ragebait slop) on the new tab screen by default, almost like I'm using MS Edge, and also the many sponsored & "suggested" (read: sponsored) links by default in new tab and the address bar as well. The only acceptable Gecko-based browser I know of right now is Zen, which is great but still in beta. And Tor & Mullvad Browser are good for private one-time sessions. We need competition for a free and open internet, I fully agree. Mozilla is far from a decent champion for that cause. I'm far more excited at what Ladybird has to offer.

prettymuchnoone 1y ago
by "Mozilla approved" do you mean that it has to come from the official add-on store? because in my experience, it doesn't--I've installed a couple of extensions manually by just dragging the .xpi into the window.
- uyzstvqs 1y ago
  Extensions in Firefox are required to be signed by Mozilla. If you make your own build of an open-source extension, it will not load. The setting to disable this check only works in Developer Edition, ESR and Nightly builds. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-on-signing-in-firefox https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-on-signing-in-firef...
  - Dylan16807 1y ago
    Installing one of those builds is a deal breaker?
  - rpdillon 1y ago
    Installing the developer edition seems like the move.
    - efreak 1y ago
      Firefox nightly is pretty darn stable, though I'm not sure if there's any security issues with it. I use it for both mobile and desktop, and have for the past 5~10 years and haven't had any issues that weren't fixed by immediately downloading a fresh build (this happened twice) or were caused by me performing unsupported/insane actions (transferring browser profiles (indexeddb) on mobile via CLI commands using remote devtools). I've got one buggy device, but I suspect corruption due to the error message and I'm more interested in saving the unsyncable data I've got on that profile than I am in trying to fix it by clearing data.
  - layer8 1y ago
    What‘s wrong with ESR? I would recommend using ESR anyway.
RamRodification 1y ago
Sponsor stuff that you can just turn off (Firefox) vs. Selling out your privacy directly (chromium with worse fingerprinting protection) and indirectly (Google browser monopoly).

prettymuchnoone 1y ago

by "Mozilla approved" do you mean that it has to come from the official add-on store? because in my experience, it doesn't--I've installed a couple of extensions manually by just dragging the .xpi into the window.

uyzstvqs 1y ago
Extensions in Firefox are required to be signed by Mozilla. If you make your own build of an open-source extension, it will not load. The setting to disable this check only works in Developer Edition, ESR and Nightly builds. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-on-signing-in-firefox https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-on-signing-in-firef...
- Dylan16807 1y ago
  Installing one of those builds is a deal breaker?
- rpdillon 1y ago
  Installing the developer edition seems like the move.
  - efreak 1y ago
    Firefox nightly is pretty darn stable, though I'm not sure if there's any security issues with it. I use it for both mobile and desktop, and have for the past 5~10 years and haven't had any issues that weren't fixed by immediately downloading a fresh build (this happened twice) or were caused by me performing unsupported/insane actions (transferring browser profiles (indexeddb) on mobile via CLI commands using remote devtools). I've got one buggy device, but I suspect corruption due to the error message and I'm more interested in saving the unsyncable data I've got on that profile than I am in trying to fix it by clearing data.
- layer8 1y ago
  What‘s wrong with ESR? I would recommend using ESR anyway.

RamRodification 1y ago

Sponsor stuff that you can just turn off (Firefox) vs. Selling out your privacy directly (chromium with worse fingerprinting protection) and indirectly (Google browser monopoly).