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Psych , to Firefox in Mozilla reverses course, re-lists extensions it removed in Russia

Glad theu withdrawed it

lvxferre , to Firefox in Mozilla reverses course, re-lists extensions it removed in Russia
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[Off-topic] As I was reading the comments from a related thread, I noticed that the comments there can be tagged by the community. (See Alfman's comment, being tagged as "verbose"). That would be an amazing feature here in the Fediverse forums/link-sharers.

[On-topic] I wonder if Mozilla was buying time to retract its staff from Russia? Even if not, I respect their ability to revert a decision in a transparent way, and apologise to the community without sounding like a corporate "apology". It shows that they actually care about the principles that they're babbling about, even if they violated them with the temporary removal.

Deebster ,

Re your off-topic aside, it looks more like that user has been tagged as verbose (whether that mean long comments or a high volume of posts isn't clear).

lvxferre ,
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Yup, you're right - the tag is for the user, not the comment as I incorrectly said.

Either way it would be a neat feature IMO. (I'd be probably among the first being tagged "verbose", but I'm OK with this - other people could be tagged as "informative", "fun" etc.)

Vincent ,

I wonder if Mozilla was buying time to retract its staff from Russia?

Do you mean firing Russian employees? And preventing other employees from ever travelling to Russia, even for private reasons?

I don't think that's very practical 😅

lvxferre ,
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More like asking them what to do, that wouldn't put either their heads or Mozilla's values in the guillotine. Looking for options.

That's just conjecture from my part, mind you.

averyminya , to Firefox in Mozilla reverses course, re-lists extensions it removed in Russia

The damage is done since people will critique Mozilla for anything that isn't snuffing Google.

I'm glad they reversed the decision.

DragonTypeWyvern ,

Such an abrupt reversal is puzzling. Did they think Firefox users don't care?

30p87 ,

They were forced to delist it temporarily in Russia. The fact that they listed it again tells me that they listen to the community, like they claimed, and that they value said community above the russian government.

kbal ,
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Well, they listen to the community when what the community is pointing out is a very obvious mistake which has a very high probability of causing a whole lot of bad press, at least.

yoasif Mod , to Firefox in OSnews Editorial: Desktop Linux has a Firefox problem
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With desktop Linux trailing both Windows and macOS in popularity, there’s nothing unexpected or inherently malicious about this, and the point of the previous few paragraphs is not to complain about the state of Firefox for Linux or to suggest Mozilla transfers precious resources from the Windows and macOS versions to the Linux version. While I obviously wouldn’t complain if they did so, it wouldn’t make much sense. The real reason I’m highlighting these issues is that if Firefox for Linux is already treated as a third wheel today, with Mozilla’s current financial means and resources, what would happen if Mozilla saw a drastic reduction in its financial means and resources?

Clearly, Google would cut the macOS and Windows versions of Chrome and begin to deploy Chromebooks and Chrome for Linux exclusively.

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