| ▲ | epihelix 4 hours ago | |
That's like suggesting that someone using LLMs to assist coding, could save themselves the trouble by writing the code by hand. Yes, Firefox could do everything, but then it'd turn back into Mozilla. The whole point of the extensions framework is to allow modular extensibility. And it's much easier to vet for malware than to code afresh and maintain. What stuns me is that most people still use browsers that cannot block ads, seem genuinely annoyed by ads, but don't want to even try switching to a browser that will easily block those ads. It's amazing how much crap people are willing to wade through when the alternative is trying something new. | ||
| ▲ | swed420 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
> That's like suggesting that someone using LLMs to assist coding, could save themselves the trouble by writing the code by hand. No it's not. > Yes, Firefox could do everything, but then it'd turn back into Mozilla. The whole point of the extensions framework is to allow modular extensibility. And it's much easier to vet for malware than to code afresh and maintain. No, quite the opposite. FF has a history of adopting extensions as baked-in functionality if they prove useful/popular enough. There are tons of examples of this from the past for various features, which is great. But that fact makes it even more absurd that they refuse to do the same for what is likely their most popular extension of all time: uBlock Origin | ||
| ▲ | oblio 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
> Yes, Firefox could do everything, but then it'd turn back into Mozilla. It's been 20+ years, nobody cares about that anymore. | ||