Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons
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Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons
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Re: Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons
#2Yet the official download on download.mozilla.org is still the old, broken version.
Re: Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons
#3A good outcome of this certificate fiasco is that many firefox users learned about the "studies" and "Normandy" brain-damage and promptly disabled them.
Re: Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons
#4A good outcome of this certificate fiasco is that many firefox users learned about the "studies" and "Normandy" brain-damage and promptly disabled them.
Having a capability for widespread A/B testing is brain-damage?
Re: Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons
#5Yet the official download on download.mozilla.org is still the old, broken version.
AFAICT still no update out for the android version either
Re: Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons
#6Yet the official download on download.mozilla.org is still the old, broken version.
AFAICT still no update out for the android version either
Installing the hotfix package directly worked on Firefox for Android for me.
https://storage.googleapis.com/moz-fx-normandy-prod-addons/e...
Re: Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons
#7A good outcome of this certificate fiasco is that many firefox users learned about the "studies" and "Normandy" brain-damage and promptly disabled them.
Having a capability for widespread A/B testing is brain-damage?
Yes, running experiments on unknowning and unconsenting users is unethical, especially when the metrics being optimized for usually aren't in the users' best interests. The widespread acceptance for this behaviour could definitely be classified as brain damage.
Re: Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons
#8A good outcome of this certificate fiasco is that many firefox users learned about the "studies" and "Normandy" brain-damage and promptly disabled them.
Having a capability for widespread A/B testing is brain-damage?
Having this capability is useful and is certainly not brain-damaged. Adding unsuspecting users to the pool of testers is.
Re: Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Having a capability for widespread A/B testing is brain-damage?
Yes, running experiments on unknowning and unconsenting users is unethical, especially when the metrics being optimized for usually aren't in the users' best interests. The widespread acceptance for this behaviour could definitely be classified as brain damage.
So when deploying changes it should just go to every single user with no incremental rollout?
Re: Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons
#10Not seeing any updates in `apt`.