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Re: Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons

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A 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?

It certainly is not brain-damage, but it is however very user-hostile.

Are you the unlucky one that ended up with the broken A/B testing change? Well, sucks for you and nobody will be able to help you. Do you want to try a specific testing change because you like it/something is broken on your end and that will fix it? Sucks to be you again, you get no choice on this. Do you want to analyze the change to see if they have something bad in it? Nope, not possible unless if you end up being one of the lucky ones. In addition if Mozilla were to get compromised (either as an organization or in software side) could use it as a backdoor on unsuspecting users or even do targeted attacks.

None of that would not be an issue if they depended on nightly/beta for changes and error detection, nor would it be if they had a list of possible tests somewhere that the user could manually enable and possibly ask some users explicitly if they want to enable one on the browser startup.

Re: Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons

#132
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Yeah, this also worked for me on Android. Not sure why the downvotes.

You're better off waiting a few more hours that disabling important security features.

Disabling all add-ons doesn't help security either.

So far I have neither an update on ubuntu-desktop nor on android (with default package managers) so without this option I'm supposed to use the internet without adblock & umatrix? lol no thx

Re: Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons

#133

I've been waiting to see this. Just updated from 65.0 to 66.0.3. My addons are still disabled. Tried to install ublock origin, and it's not letting me. I'm getting a "Download failed. Please check your connection." This is crazy, and I'm really disappointed with Mozilla. I'd leave firefox right now, but I don't want to contribute to the destruction of one of the last good pieces of software not owned by Google.

> Just updated from 65.0 to 66.0.3

The fix is in 66.0.4.

Re: Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons

#135
post #90

This is pretty bad for Firefox. I wonder how much people straight up & left for Chrome as a result of it.

I left for Chrome in a way via Brave. Brave is based on Chrome minus being owned by the All-Seeing-Eye Company in Mountainview.

I really like brave, but right now FF is still my main. Brave is still needs some features. The whole syncing bookmarks and wallets thing is really annoying. I'm glad the way they devised is secure, and privacy sensitive, but it's still a pain in the ass.

Re: Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons

#137

I've been waiting to see this. Just updated from 65.0 to 66.0.3. My addons are still disabled. Tried to install ublock origin, and it's not letting me. I'm getting a "Download failed. Please check your connection." This is crazy, and I'm really disappointed with Mozilla. I'd leave firefox right now, but I don't want to contribute to the destruction of one of the last good pieces of software not owned by Google.

> Just updated from 65.0 to 66.0.3 The fix is in 66.0.4.

I noticed that after posting. :o EDIT: "gorhill"... I was seriously just on your GitHub account, like 15 minutes ago. I knew I've seen that username before. Thanks for making uBlock Origin!

Re: Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons

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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?

Isn't that the entire point of the nightly and beta branches?

Re: Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons

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Yeah, I gave Firefox a second chance with the quantum updates but, I ran into all the same performance issues I’ve associated with Firefox since version 3

If you used addons in all tests, and/or have ever opened about:config, consider creating a fresh profile without any addons and leaving the settings at the defaults. If you still see problems after a week, that would confirm it’s Firefox rather than whatever third-party modifications you and/or your addons are making to the browser. For example, one of the popular cargo-cult ‘fixes’ for the addons issue instructs Fir…

I recommend to at least enable uBlock Origin as it will save you a lot of resources whilst browsing the web. There's a whole bunch of other privacy and resource related addons I also like, but it goes a bit too far to mention those.

Re: Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons

#140

I've been waiting to see this. Just updated from 65.0 to 66.0.3. My addons are still disabled. Tried to install ublock origin, and it's not letting me. I'm getting a "Download failed. Please check your connection." This is crazy, and I'm really disappointed with Mozilla. I'd leave firefox right now, but I don't want to contribute to the destruction of one of the last good pieces of software not owned by Google.

I installed Opera yesterday. So far so good. Hope others will chime in with more alternatives
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