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neshura@bookwormstory.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Compromise: Develop it as a Plugin and then install it by default. That way people who don’t want the feature can easily remove it completely. That approach would likely also reduce the number of Firefox forks whose sole purpose is to remove the new features some consider bloat.

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redcalcium@lemmy.institute ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
That’s actually what Firefox usually did for these kind of features. They’re usually delayed as system add-ons.

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Lepsea@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Or make it so that people have a choice to add some of the features when installing the browser. Debloating is not fun

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- Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Sometimes it feels like debloating is a hobby to people with little to show for it
  
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  - Aceticon@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Well, the purpose of debloating is to end up with less stuff than you started with ;)
    
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    Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I do get that and used to do a lot of it myself, but usually the results are just fairly minor. That’s what I meant by it seeming more like a hobby than something hugely beneficial
    
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- ByGourou@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Most people don’t want a 45th prompt when they just want to install firefox to check facebook and their mail
  
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- neshura@bookwormstory.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  True, also wouldn’t be too much work. Just some additional dialogues on first start up asking you which plugins you’d like installed
  
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tweeks@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Good solution, perhaps two simple options at browser install: Default / Custom. That way you don’t have to uninstall all the stuff at the end.

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- BaardFigur@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  But how should they handle a version update where a given addon is added. A popup?
  
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  - Gestrid@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Probably handle it similarly to how Chrome handles an extension asking for new permissions. It disables the add-on and gives the user a small non-intrusive notification on the options menu. Opening the notification notified the user about the change in permissions and asks them if they want to re-enable the add-on or remove it from Chrome.
    
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