All Tridactyl installations might get removed by Firefox on Aug 21

Re:All Tridactyl installations might get removed by Firefox ... by rebelwebmaster on Friday August 16, 2019 @04:16PM (#20719281)

There's a built-in extension blocklist which also gets updated remotely.

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/tip/browser/app/...

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Re:All Tridactyl installations might get removed by Firefox ... by Mathnerd314 on Friday August 16, 2019 @04:56PM (#20719610)

More on the policy for said blocklist: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Blocklisting (2008-11) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-ons-cause-issues-ar... (2012) https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/AMO... (2019)

The expansion from "we block malicious add-on versions" to "we block add-ons with known stability or security issues" to "we err on the side of security" does not bode well for the future of hacking cool add-ons.

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Re:All Tridactyl installations might get removed by Firefox ... by michaelmrose on Friday August 16, 2019 @09:48PM (#20721415)

What about a fork that only differs in allowing a second more permissive addon store.

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Re:All Tridactyl installations might get removed by Firefox ... by SanchoPanda on Saturday August 17, 2019 @12:21AM (#20722018)

Settings change over time and maintaing any fork is hard. Maintaining a fork of a modern browser is a sisyphian task. Even compiling it is no joke.

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Re:All Tridactyl installations might get removed by Firefox ... by Arubis on Friday August 16, 2019 @10:09PM (#20721511)

This is more what I’m concerned about. Does this only affect mainline FF or dev/nightly as well?

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