They added features that benefit power users and developers? I'm sure someone at Mozilla will be fired for this soon enough
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That's likely a mistake that will be corrected before the stable release. /s
Don't worry, they've added a setting in 115 that allows them to disable any addons they didn't vet from a list of websites they can configure, so the endless slide towards a shitter Firefox is still going strong.
It's something you can disable, and work is already been done to allow the user to further customize it.
Anybody who thinks that feature should ever have been included in the first place should be given a dunce cap and a Vsmile
The fact they've released this feature with a help page that directs you to a "I accept the risks button" is proof enough that this never should've been released like this in the first place.
The feature itself would be great if it were opt-in and easily manageable from the UI, but it was released long before that. Instead, they released a list they control remotely with no UI that's opt-out and then went "we'll put the user in control later". This is exactly the user-hostile approach that Firefox users are sick of.
Using Firefox to post on Lemmy - feels good man.
Having said that, Firefox would be much better if Mozilla would spend their resources on improving the browser instead of random shenanigans.
I wish they could just bring back PWA's. The PWA extension doesn't work with the dumb snap Firefox.
Don't use snap.
i really dont understand the snap packages argument, care to elaborate?
Well I'm not really opposed to it but if someone forces me to use something, I won't. And snap Firefox is sandboxed meaning extensions that requires a separate plug-in won't work.
then why are the ubuntu devs so enthusiastic about it?
Idk, maybe cuz then they can ask companies for money for putting their apps on the store?
how does the sudo apt install work then, does anyone get paid?
Probably.....not? Idk I'm not the 'know it all guy'. It's just inconvenient when I sudo apt install Firefox and it installs it from snap tho.
I've heard that snaps are great for servers, which is where Ubuntu is focused these days. Also, they want people to use their homemade technology instead of Flatpaks, which are much better for desktop users from my understanding.
flatpaks are what you get when you use the sudo apt install right?
No, apt usually gives you native .deb installs. Flatpak and Snap are two different container technologies for distributing apps.
Its simply because its slow and bulky and the snap store is not open source and themes wont work on it.
I've been wondering for quite a while what the "Actions" entry in the Search settings does. I suppose this feature has been planned for some time now, but they just never bothered to implement it. No idea why the had that shortcut present though.
