Re:Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser
by gorbachev on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @05:20PM
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No, I didn't. You misunderstood my comment, and have beaten that straw man to death since then.
I WANTED TO REVIEW THE CHOICE OF INSTALLING AN ADD-ON ON MY COMPUTER, NOT THE DAMN SOURCE CODE!
Re:Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser
by ubernostrum on Thursday December 21, 2017 @07:52AM
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And you could have done that.
By... paying attention to the source.
This isn't the first time a piece of software, open source or not, has released a new version that did something users didn't expect or were angry about. The sole difference is that, in the case of open source software, you have the chance to review what it will do by looking at its source code prior to running it. The fact that you didn't review it doesn't mean it was impossible to (that would be the case with a proprietary browser like Chrome).