Re:Reinventing Firefox for Android
by throwupaway123 on Thursday June 27, 2019 @02:31PM
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This is still a preview, it's nowhere near a finished product. Extensions come after MVP https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/662#issuecomm...
There is no minimum viable product here. The MVP was the first usable mobile Firefox. A version of Firefox without extension support is just broken.
Re:Reinventing Firefox for Android
by metalliqaz on Thursday June 27, 2019 @02:42PM
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(minimum viable product)
Isn't it strange that the big flash announcement comes before MVP?
Re:Reinventing Firefox for Android
by mncolinlee on Friday June 28, 2019 @12:49AM
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This release is what they termed MVP. Everything after it is post-MVP. It means minimum viable product. In my personal opinion, a lot more functionality was included than what most would call an MVP.
The big flash announcement is to get early adopters for testing. There's no reason to delay testing until the MVP is ready, as long as testers remain aware that Firefox Preview is a preview that shouldn't be expected to already have all features implemented.
It's just that, for me and a bunch of other people, we would be happy to test a preview if we could compare it against our current browsers. We can't, because
advertising is an abomination that destroys the utility of the internet
and so there's no fair comparison.
Anyone remember when Firefox extensions broke recently? I thought it was a rather horrible experience.
If the new Firefox Preview can natively block advertisements, whitelist sites, disable third party cookies, prevent and hide social trackers, block anti-ad-blockers, etc. etc. then I agree that extensions are kind of useless, and I understand Mozilla's point.
However, I see the lack of extension support detrimental to my freedoms as a user, since it means I no longer can control what the software hides for me, nor what it broadcasts about me to the abyss of waste that is the advertising industry; I will have to trust the browser, and the lack of extension support is a rather untrustworthy property to begin with.