On 12/16/2017 04:11 PM, Benjamin Kreuter wrote:
Sorry if this was discussed already, but it looks like Firefox 57 on Fedora 26 (and I assume 27 but have not checked) in the Fedora repo has "extension.shield-recipe-client.enabled = true".
- Is there a reason this is not turned off by default? This is being
used to install extensions without notifying users.
It seems to be the upstream default. Perhaps you could file a bug and politely ask the maintainer to consider changing it. I would think at least in stable releases it should be off.
- At what point will it be appropriate to consider changing the
default browser? This is just the latest in a series of questionable things Mozilla has done.
Well, 'default' is not too clear cut these days... but if you mean the browser shipped by the workstation edition, the workstation working group would be the ones to talk to. For each of the spins, their groups (xfce, kde, etc).
I agree this latest thing was handled poorly, but personally I think firefox is still the best choice.
kevin