Firefox 115 can silently remotely disable my extension on any site

Re:Firefox 115 can silently remotely disable my extension on... by RobotToaster on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @01:59PM (#36604349)

>I have always had my settings honored

They disabled the setting to enable XUL extensions.

They disabled a bunch of extensions I had installed on firefox android.

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Re:Firefox 115 can silently remotely disable my extension on... by TheRealPomax on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @02:12PM (#36604594)

They didn't disable the setting to enable XUL extensions, they rewrote the codebase to something that can't run XUL. And of all the changes in the past decade, that's actually one I'm 100% okay with, XUL was a hot mess that could do way more harm than any extension should have ever even in theory been able to do.

As long as FF doesn't buy into Manifest v3.

Which it will.

Because it will.

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Re:Firefox 115 can silently remotely disable my extension on... by JohnFen on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @02:22PM (#36604776)

> of all the changes in the past decade, that's actually one I'm 100% okay with

I would have been OK with it if it didn't come with the loss of functionality.

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Re:Firefox 115 can silently remotely disable my extension on... by TheRealPomax on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @06:20PM (#36607994)

There's "loss of functionality" and then there's "I am enjoying functionality that's due to an extention potentially taking over my system". More of the former, less of the latter please.

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Re:Firefox 115 can silently remotely disable my extension on... by JohnFen on Thursday July 06, 2023 @02:23PM (#36620512)

Fair enough! It means FF is the browser for you, and it's not the browser for me.

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Re:Firefox 115 can silently remotely disable my extension on... by type0 on Thursday July 06, 2023 @12:48AM (#36611400)

It will when they update their Manifesto to v3 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/

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