you still can get them, they are just hidden
Comment on Firefox to become first mobile browser to support desktop extensions later this year
ladel@feddit.uk 10 months agoYeah, it definitely did. Then they all broke suddenly. I even ditched firefox for a while because of that.
notasandwich1948@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
radix@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That was definitely the most infuriating thing they’d done with the browser. The whole project started decades ago with a simple plan: make the most bare-bones browser, and let people customize it with any extensions they wanted. Then all of a sudden, it turned into having <10 approved extensions, and fuck your customization.
It’s gotten much better over time since then, but damn if there weren’t a few really bad years.
sramder@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I think they went evil because letting google pay 80% of your bills isn’t really tenable… but some incredibly boneheaded decisions. Instead of offering their own suite of privacy focused products they tried to cram pocket down everyone’s throats.
I love Firefox but they have made some crushingly bad calls over the years.