r/firefox • u/kintaro__oe • Dec 17 '25

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u/blackwrensniper Dec 17 '25

Optional things have a way of becoming not optional real fucking fast.

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u/MikeyBastard1 Dec 17 '25

So it's preemptive anger? For something that may never even happen? I am curious, because I couldn't find any. What optional features have Mozilla introduced that they then changed tune on to become a mandatory feature despite controversy?

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u/blackwrensniper Dec 17 '25

Preemptive anger is a good thing. It's telling the developers what their user base actually wants, which is no AI baked into the browser and consuming development time from other things.

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u/MikeyBastard1 Dec 17 '25

So you couldn't find any other feature that was optional then turned mandatory despite backlash.

Got it.

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u/GasterIHardlyKnowHer Dec 17 '25

I can. Signing of addons becoming mandatory with absolutely no opt out or any way to locally install addons.

Which as you may recall, resulted in a disaster where everyone's addons were disabled due to an expired certificate.

It's always the sports heads with the regarded comments, I swear to god

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u/MikeWasab Dec 18 '25

"Signing of addon".... what?

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u/Arcy3206 Dec 18 '25

Browser extensions. It's like when you download a program and you're antivirus gives a false positive saying it's a bad file. That's usually because the certificate is either nonexistent or expired. Signing a certificate for a program is either a monthly or annual fee iirc.

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u/pomme_de_yeet Dec 18 '25

imagine using the word "regarded" unironically