Comment by yborg

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.