<story><title>Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons</title><url>https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/66.0.4/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>f4stjack</author><text>Good move, congrats on surviving the second armag-add-on  finally BUT I won&amp;#x27;t be moving from chromium until Firefox (or Mozilla) explains:&lt;p&gt;- why am I opted-in to a Studies program in Firefox&amp;#x27;s default state? (With no explicit information about what it is)&lt;p&gt;- what does app.normandy.enabled switch do and why is its default value is True and doesn&amp;#x27;t change to false when I explicitly state I don&amp;#x27;t want to be in the Studies program?&lt;p&gt;- why can&amp;#x27;t we see any xpi&amp;#x27;s installed by studies program unless we explicitly go to about:studies?&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t say chromium is better, but I think we deserve an explanation regarding these points.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sam_goody</author><text>Chromium is definitely worse.&lt;p&gt;While these deserve an explanation, you should not wait to move.&lt;p&gt;Chrome is spyware that does web browsing. It&amp;#x27;s parent company also shows ads, all the time.&lt;p&gt;Chrome&amp;#x27;s auto update not only allows them to silently update or change your browser, it allows them to silently install other software on your computer.&lt;p&gt;Firefox is a browser. It can auto-update in a way that may be questionable, but it also has a lot of cranky devs looking over their shoulder to call them out years later because Mr. Robot may have been able to show them an ad. FF deserves to be called out on their mistakes, and need offer an explanation. But perspective!&lt;p&gt;Why would you not move now?</text></comment>
<story><title>Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons</title><url>https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/66.0.4/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>f4stjack</author><text>Good move, congrats on surviving the second armag-add-on  finally BUT I won&amp;#x27;t be moving from chromium until Firefox (or Mozilla) explains:&lt;p&gt;- why am I opted-in to a Studies program in Firefox&amp;#x27;s default state? (With no explicit information about what it is)&lt;p&gt;- what does app.normandy.enabled switch do and why is its default value is True and doesn&amp;#x27;t change to false when I explicitly state I don&amp;#x27;t want to be in the Studies program?&lt;p&gt;- why can&amp;#x27;t we see any xpi&amp;#x27;s installed by studies program unless we explicitly go to about:studies?&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t say chromium is better, but I think we deserve an explanation regarding these points.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krageon</author><text>Chromium has a working exploit (AFAIK it still is not patched) that allows third-party code to masquerade as first-party code. Unless you run a special addon[1], you are vulnerable to this.&lt;p&gt;The fact that I still can&amp;#x27;t find that it&amp;#x27;s patched now tells me nothing good about the health of the ecosystem and who it is meant to serve. That should be all the reason you need to switch to Firefox, which admittedly also has huge warts but to my mind ones that aren&amp;#x27;t quite so egregious.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;chrome.google.com&amp;#x2F;webstore&amp;#x2F;detail&amp;#x2F;ublock-origin-extra&amp;#x2F;pgdnlhfefecpicbbihgmbmffkjpaplco?hl=en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;chrome.google.com&amp;#x2F;webstore&amp;#x2F;detail&amp;#x2F;ublock-origin-extr...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>