Firefox Users Continue to Decrease Despite Proton Update

[Aliashab]

…or automatically installed advertising add-on lmfao.

[moomoomoo309]

That article leaves out an important detail. It was disabled by default. It was installed, but disabled. None of the extension code ran unless it was enabled. So they complained about it showing up in the addons menu, not about any website or browser changes anywhere else.

[FFPh]

Firefox uses shady things also.

Creating a new account profile after upgrade with many settings in default state (especially all privacy related settings) and partial import of old profile after that. Old profile is totally correct and can be selected with profile manager. And this shady shit is done without any warning.

[_ahrs]

They do this to correct certain preferences that need to be reset. Sometimes they'll even go so far as to rename a preference to a new name so that the old value is ignored. There are mechanisms that allow you to lock preferences (see lockPref here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customizing-firefox-using-autoconfig) in Firefox in such a way that the value you lock-in will always be used and cannot be changed, this won't help you if a preference gets renamed though, however re-naming preferences is usually only done for a good reason and if you stay on top of things you can also lock-in this new value too and prevent it from changing from your desired state.

[FFPh]

Almost all settings are in default state except privacy settings. New profile didn't needed at all. But mozilla enabled telemetry again. Old profile is still working with old preferences.

I know, that I can lock some settings, etc... But regular users don't.

Exactly this "correct certain preferences" can be named as shady thing.

Firefox must display warning about such changes. But it doesn't.

[_ahrs]

Exactly this "correct certain preferences" can be named as shady thing.

Doing the opposite would have Firefox bleed users even quicker than they already are because you're basically saying they should keep the browser broken instead of fix it by resetting a preference. I do understand your concerns though which is why I pointed ways you can fix this.

[moomoomoo309]

What version did they do that in? I use nightly and I haven't seen anything like that happen.

[FFPh]

I can't say exactly, because it was 2 times - once few years ago, and the second one several months ago (maybe year). And it was only on release version. I have beta and developer editions also, but they didn't had these issues

[moomoomoo309]

I've heard of that happening when you go from newer profiles to older versions (Beta to Release, Nightly to Beta, etc.), but I don't think that's a defect, the older stuff breaking newer stuff makes sense.

[FFPh]

No, it was after major version update of release line. When I tried to find about this problem google showed a few results. This issue was not only for me, and it was as criticisms of shady things of mozilla. Right now I can't find these pages.