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Re:Firefox 115 can silently remotely disable my extension on... by SilasX on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @01:08PM (#36603464)
Right. They keep the config settings around. They just start ignoring the value, like in the case of allowing unsigned extensions. Or anything related to telemetry and user experiments.
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Re:Firefox 115 can silently remotely disable my extension on... by hpd on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @01:22PM (#36603661)
While I've not noticed any settings being ignored, I suggest to use policies(either GPO or "policies.json" when it comes to telemetry. As for experiments I've been running ESR for so long that I don't even know what these are supposed to be or do.
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Re:Firefox 115 can silently remotely disable my extension on... by SilasX on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @01:32PM (#36603799)
Wow, you didn’t notice the one I just listed even after I listed it? That level of ignorance takes effort!

As for telemetry, I’m talking about this particular incident, where the “user studies” feature was used to force an unrelated update:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19826827

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