Comment by WCityMike
9 years ago
You want to point us towards where ... on Bugzilla and the Mozilla project wiki pages and the source code and all the other things you mentioned ... this addon was discussed?
9 years ago
You want to point us towards where ... on Bugzilla and the Mozilla project wiki pages and the source code and all the other things you mentioned ... this addon was discussed?
Firefox is open source. Someone had to have committed code to make this happen, which you can use to go dig up the history if you want to.
But you're not going to do that. Which is your right; it's just hard to complain about not being consulted/not getting to review/etc. when you're talking about a piece of open-source software with public repositories and trackers. Anyone on earth is allowed to see what's going on in there.
You speak as if this browser is used solely by elite software developers. Mozilla markets this is as a browser for the common man, indeed, the common man concerned about privacy. These people have no ability to review source code to see if a new release has inserted some stupid theatricals that the user has no interest in, merely because these users, in good faith, thought they were helping collect usage data to improve this browser.
This has nothing to do with open source development at Mozilla or anywhere else, it has to do with what Mozilla the organization portrays itself as. If Facebook had pulled something like this, well, I don't think anybody would have been surprised. For Mozilla, I think it's inexcusable, and after the major marketing push on Quantum as 'Chrome without spying!' it's an amazing own goal. I really want Firefox to succeed, and marketing retards at Mozilla are going to sink the whole thing by garnering exactly the kind of publicity they don't need.
The bug is closed and it was only open sourced after it was already installed in people's browsers.
Firefox is not fully open source.
Sure, users want to have their cake and eat it too: a free browser, open, produced by invisible elves.
But so does Mozilla. They're a big enterprise when it suits them, and a scrappy upstart otherwise.
The Mozilla brand is looking mighty shabby. Privacy is the one thing they've consistently pushed, and yet I can't recall any serious innovation or stance they've taken on recent years that actually puts their money where their mouth is.
Private browsing was invented by Chrome. Brave shields you from script bloat. Safari's adding machine learning to that end.
Which leaves Mozilla... pushing adware onto its users. Qué?
It's disingenuous to say that users should be able to intuit how it's all organized and how they can contribute, when something like this clearly only happens because of privileged first party involvement with real revenue attached.
Unless you're suggesting that anyone who wishes to spam a campaign to Firefox users can just get that done by opening up an issue and submitting a patch...?