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Re:Mozilla and Microsoft are rebuilding their browsers’ foun... by moron4hire on Friday April 21, 2017 @08:03AM (#14164729)
Only to the few people who use those extensions. Most user's don't use any extensions at all.
Re:Mozilla and Microsoft are rebuilding their browsers’ foun... by tux1968 on Friday April 21, 2017 @08:26AM (#14164878)
What are you basing that on?

A quick google suggests that at one point 85% of users used extensions.. and as of last year it was still 60%

https://www.ghacks.net/2016/01/06/surprise-40-of-firefox-use...

Re:Mozilla and Microsoft are rebuilding their browsers’ foun... by gpm on Friday April 21, 2017 @08:41AM (#14164994)
And how many of those 60% just use ublock or something similar, which will continue working, and no other extensions?
Re:Mozilla and Microsoft are rebuilding their browsers’ foun... by tux1968 on Friday April 21, 2017 @08:44AM (#14165023)
That really wasn't the point of my post. The claim made by the parent post was that "Most user's don't use any extensions at all."
Re:Mozilla and Microsoft are rebuilding their browsers’ foun... by gpm on Friday April 21, 2017 @09:07AM (#14165181)
My apologies, I didn't mean to come across as disagreeing with what you said, but just to put it in better context for the larger discussion of how noticeable disabling non-web extensions will be to the average user.
Re:Mozilla and Microsoft are rebuilding their browsers’ foun... by carussell on Friday April 21, 2017 @08:51AM (#14165074)
You're moving the goalposts.