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> addons can change things and break the browser.

Good. That's a feature. I install addons. It's not a site i visit with no consideration.

This is the same thinking of apple. People install random apps so let's restrict apps to the point the user cannot have a text editor on their phone! meh! This is all dumb!

Now it is impossible to have the choice to install an addon for tweaking hidden options. Everyone should live with the crap that is about:config and user.js (or only about:config, because they thought user.js too dangerous on mobile too!)

I trust an open source browser by random people, why not an open source addon that gives me the functionality i need?



Did you read the rest of the article?

That was not a summary of why the old model could not be kept, just of why it was promiscuous.




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