Comment by y0ghur7_xxx

9 years ago

> I haven't researched deeply, but apparently the add-on does nothing until the user opts-in on studies.

It adds some css to a list of words:

https://github.com/gregglind/addon-wr/blob/da464ac8f1c3b0894...

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lozenge  9 years ago

Only if the preference extensions.pug.lookingglass is changed from the default of false.

I haven't figured out how that setting is exposed yet. Maybe they expect people to go to about:config and change it? Is there video footage suggesting that in the TV show?

https://github.com/gregglind/addon-wr/blob/104-rename-less-v...

leeoniya  9 years ago

i'm on nightly and the default was to opt me in. that's some shady shit. i'm pissed.

mozilla is rapidly burning through over a decade of hard-earned trust and goodwill. i install firefox on other people's machines. i'm not a good user to piss off.

am i gonna have to wait for servo to mature and make an unmozillad servo? what a sad reality that would be.

this is not the browser we were looking for.

  • TheRealPomax  9 years ago

    if you're on Nightly, this is literally what you signed up for: all the experimental settings and all new functionality turned on by default so that you can be part of the test bed of users and devs that can report back to the larger developer community through Bugzilla when things aren't working the way they should be. Complaining about the fact that Nightly did exactly what it's supposed to is kind of ridiculous.

    • leeoniya  9 years ago

      > if you're on Nightly, this is literally what you signed up for

      no, it is not, because i signed up for nightly a decade ago when mozilla still had my trust and admiration. i signed up to help mozilla find bugs before they hit end users. i signed up for new web platform features and bug fixes. i signed up to see the perf and ui improvements.

      what i get force-fed now is an additional mystery platter of ad experiments, privacy erosion, forced third-party integration, random auto-addons and who knows what else at this point - they can literally push anything behind my back. the absence of all of these things is the exact reason i have stuck with firefox. i guess this relationship is not meant to last.

      as another comment says in this thread, it's literally the "Windows 10 of browsers". Want faster perf and more security? Just sign up for the next version with more ads, less privacy and random third party services we auto-push to you. I know Chrome does this too, which doesnt make it ok for mozilla - it just leaves me with 0 options. if i had other viable options, i would leave quietly and never post this comment.

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    • DonHopkins  9 years ago

      How can I get my bitcoin mining extension included in the nightly build, too? Trust me, it really needs lots and lots of widespread testing by as many users as possible!

ryukafalz  9 years ago

The extension only starts up if the config option "extensions.pug.lookingglass" is set to "true" though:

https://github.com/gregglind/addon-wr/blob/da464ac8f1c3b0894...

(It defaults to "false.")