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mantap on Nov 1, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Firefox to Discontinue Sideloaded Extensions

Wait what? Sideloading means installing software directly, rather than from a first party distribution mechanism. If a user installs software manually they are still sideloading it, that's what the word means!!

cyborgx7 on Nov 1, 2019 [–]

Yeah, they just used a terrible internal name for the feature they are removing, that makes it sound way more severe than it actually is.

Seems somewhat tone-deaf with one of the big criticisms of the project being their restrictiveness regarding add-ons.

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