Silently, but with a huuuuge Banner that notifies you that the extensions were disabled; not really silent then?
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
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You would have to be looking for it:
Note that the warning appears in the Extensions popup rather than on the Extensions icon, so you wouldn't know that StopTheMadness was disabled on YouTube unless you opened the popup (or unless you saw the autoplaying videos on YouTube that StopTheMadness would otherwise stop.)
What happens, though, if you pin the extensions to the toolbar for easy access to their settings?
It turns out that when you pin an extension to the toolbar, it no longer appears in the Extensions popup! Consequently, the quarantined domains warning no longer appears in the Extensions popup either. In fact, there's no longer an Extensions popup: clicking the Extensions toolbar icon simply opens the
about:addonspage, which doesn't show the quarantined domains warning anywhere.
This does feel like something you should be able to toggle off. I can understand their security concerns, but I didn't switch to Firefox because I wanted less control/trust from my browser.
You can, set extensions.quarantinedDomains.enabled to false.
Yet another reason to use mullvad-browser instead of vanilla Firefox.
Removing user agency is a big deal, to do it silently is a massive red flag. Even if the intentions are good paternalistic behavior removes agency from users.
I wish I could have extensions default to off and be able to turn them on selectively on sites. For things like darkreader I don't want to use it 90% of the time so it shouldn't need to have at access to site data.
By the way, I don't like the title of this article, how is it done "remotely", it's just a list in about:config, no? Sounds clickbaity.
Most people leave those settings alone. If you've never changed the value, whenever Mozilla change the default, you'll be updated to the new default when you update your browser. That's a remote change to which websites remain unaffected by extensions, except for the minority of users who've done something about it.
fiReFox iS So much BEtTer tHan ChrOme foR PrivACY
still is.
use Librewolf
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