But should the outcome be that privacy is only a cultural problematic bound to disappear with modern times would remain the fact that there would be no argument to consider that one’s privacy is more important than that of another and as such he who knows should disclose what he knows : this would invalidate the very legitimacy of business and intelligence tracking/spying in the same proportion as considering privacy as an eternal fact and right does. I understand there may be a debate on privacy itself. Whatever laws some will always follow their own conscious and others will abandon theirs to legitimate their beliefs and behaviors on the ground law is on their side. I wonder in what a value is deeply anchored in one’s soul and when it may be a social fashion. I wonder if the younger generation has the same approach to privacy as we seniors have. Mozilla is not the only culprit in that and independently of the thread, the video you linked to is worth its 16minutes.
You could delete a thousand ones by mistake, and poof ! they are gone.ĭoing quickly shoddy work does not make it a good job. It still does not have a trash can for bookmarks. It still cannot combine two different search criteria for bookmarks. It still cannot find a bookmark folder, only a bookmark or a tag. The new, all-shiny, “fast” Firefox (and it is indeed fast, there’s no denying it), still can’t close all tabs on the left, or all tabs, or even open a page in a new tab in some circumstances.Īnd it still cannot open the bookmark panel with one click after, what ? ten years ? It still cannot sort bookmarks automatically, or even manually. One would not need all these “crap” extensions if the barebones Firefox was equipped with appropriate features, which it still is not. And then, when you’re not on your guard anymore, they pull the rug beneath your feet, unannounced. First Mozilla pretends it is being nice, and leaves you your old extensions past day zero. This is the typical hypocrisy of big corporations : we pretend to be friendly and to “listen to you”, but in reality we bully you to no end. Yesterday, it de-activated, no questions asked, my old uMatrix. This does not excuse the sneaky way Mozilla managed the transition. Still, there was a great amount of me-too, useless and hastily put-together add-ons. Yes, there were some very good extensions that were almost full-fledged programs then there were a lot of extensions which corrected unexcusable flaws and oversights of Firefox and there were also some which added features which could not be reasonably expected from the barebones browser. I’m surprised nobody mentioned this before. “The overwhelming amount of FF extensions are crap.”
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