• Neshura
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    2101 year ago

    Compromise: Develop it as a Plugin and then install it by default. That way people who don’t want the feature can easily remove it completely. That approach would likely also reduce the number of Firefox forks whose sole purpose is to remove the new features some consider bloat.

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      Or make it so that people have a choice to add some of the extension features when installing the browser. Debloating is not fun

        • @Aceticon
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          Well, the whole point of debloating is to end up with little in the way of stuff instead of lots of stuff ;)

          • @[email protected]
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            81 year ago

            I do get that and used to do a lot of it myself, but usually the results are just fairly minor. That’s what I meant by it seeming more like a hobby than something hugely beneficial

            • @Aceticon
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              31 year ago

              I suspected so, but the way you worded it was just asking (neigh, demanding) to be “misunderstood” for humouristic purposes :)

                • @Aceticon
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                  41 year ago

                  Not a criticism.

                  As far as I can tell (not a native speaker myself) it was properly worded and I only acted as if I had misunderstood it for humouristic purposes.

                  I’ve done it for actual expressions used by native speakers by simulating language ignorance and interpreting them in a literal way, for fun, just like I did here.

                  Sorry if it sounded like a criticism - I meant to just take the piss in a friendly way.

      • @[email protected]
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        81 year ago

        Most people don’t want a 45th prompt when they just want to install firefox to check facebook and their mail

      • Neshura
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        41 year ago

        True, also wouldn’t be too much work. Just some additional dialogues on first start up asking you which plugins you’d like installed

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      101 year ago

      Good solution, perhaps two simple options at browser install: Default / Custom. That way you don’t have to uninstall all the stuff at the end.

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          31 year ago

          Probably handle it similarly to how Chrome handles an extension asking for new permissions. It disables the add-on and gives the user a small non-intrusive notification on the options menu. Opening the notification notified the user about the change in permissions and asks them if they want to re-enable the add-on or remove it from Chrome.