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there's bugs for each of these (which are open to the world and anyone can comment) all you have to do is to take a stance during the process. harder to do so a

by zobzu 13y ago

there's bugs for each of these (which are open to the world and anyone can comment) all you have to do is to take a stance during the process. harder to do so after a bunch of various people (employed or not by mozilla) decided something. pretty sure those options went off because enough people decided that the preferences/option panel was too complicated and these were the ones that telemetry indicated were the least used.

marblar 13y ago
Surely he was kidding?
- panhandlr 13y ago
  This is no joke brother... We will not rest until this issue is heard in the highest of courts. First they came for our <blink> tags and we laughed... then they came for our options to disable tabbed browser, and they said nothing... then they came for our option to not be tracked by online advertising agencies (javascript) and everyone was too busy sharing kitten photos on facebook to say a damned thing.
- mirkules 13y ago
  Yeah. It's satire about overreactions that are so prevalent on many tech sites (including this one). Colbert would be proud.
  - panhandlr 13y ago
    We have already begun to gather near Mozilla HQ in San Francisco... https://socialcam.com/v/39HPvZde https://socialcam.com/v/39HPvZde Protesters can be heard chanting: "WHAT DO WE WANT?" "The ability to disable tabbed browsing" "WHEN DO WE WANT IT" "Possibly in the next point release, but the next major is cool too"
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chris_wot 13y ago
Bugzilla is not your personal soapbox. The revolution is a damp squib.
caf 13y ago
I would not be at all surprised if there was a high correlation between "People who turned off Javascript" and "People who declined to provide telemetry", so there could be some selection bias in those results.
- ishansharma 13y ago
  People who understand what that setting did can still disable by going to about:config! This is not a conspiracy, just making browser hard to break for people who check boxes and forget about these. For those, browser is broken! Those who know what disabling JavaScript actually does still have a way to disable! Where does all the privacy talk come in between?
  - Natsu 13y ago
    NoScript is a much better option all around. I know I've been using it since forever. When I got my last company laptop without all these things set, I was surprised how painful it was to try and download anything without a proper adblocker and noscript. I don't know how people do it.
- zobzu 13y ago
  that's a good point

by zobzu 13y ago

marblar 13y ago

Surely he was kidding?

panhandlr 13y ago
This is no joke brother... We will not rest until this issue is heard in the highest of courts. First they came for our <blink> tags and we laughed... then they came for our options to disable tabbed browser, and they said nothing... then they came for our option to not be tracked by online advertising agencies (javascript) and everyone was too busy sharing kitten photos on facebook to say a damned thing.
mirkules 13y ago
Yeah. It's satire about overreactions that are so prevalent on many tech sites (including this one). Colbert would be proud.
- panhandlr 13y ago
  We have already begun to gather near Mozilla HQ in San Francisco... https://socialcam.com/v/39HPvZde https://socialcam.com/v/39HPvZde Protesters can be heard chanting: "WHAT DO WE WANT?" "The ability to disable tabbed browsing" "WHEN DO WE WANT IT" "Possibly in the next point release, but the next major is cool too"

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chris_wot 13y ago

Bugzilla is not your personal soapbox. The revolution is a damp squib.

caf 13y ago

I would not be at all surprised if there was a high correlation between "People who turned off Javascript" and "People who declined to provide telemetry", so there could be some selection bias in those results.

ishansharma 13y ago
People who understand what that setting did can still disable by going to about:config! This is not a conspiracy, just making browser hard to break for people who check boxes and forget about these. For those, browser is broken! Those who know what disabling JavaScript actually does still have a way to disable! Where does all the privacy talk come in between?
- Natsu 13y ago
  NoScript is a much better option all around. I know I've been using it since forever. When I got my last company laptop without all these things set, I was surprised how painful it was to try and download anything without a proper adblocker and noscript. I don't know how people do it.
zobzu 13y ago
that's a good point