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butzlast Thursday at 7:08 PM3 repliesview on HN

Firefox should release a separate build - "base", "core", "classic" - clearly, I am not a marketing person, but idea behind it, that this is only a browser without any extra features added. No "AI", no studies, no account sync. Only bare minimum browser, that allows user to do their internet things and, if they ever desire, will install all extra bells and whistles as extensions. No need to agree to any EULA either (remember, that it was added to Firefox?). And, the best part, all existing users will still keep using the same old Firefox version, no surprises for them. Now, I assume that someone will tell me, that this version already exists and is called ESR :)


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bondarchuklast Thursday at 7:29 PM

For example at the moment multi-account containers is a plugin. I needed it and installed the plugin and it's fine.

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driverdanlast Thursday at 7:59 PM

Firefox should be a browser, period. It should render pages. All other features should be extensions.

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yjftsjthsd-hlast Thursday at 7:39 PM

I'm pretty sure ESR is a different thing, but yeah, that sounds like a good idea. I think it even should be relatively easy, insofar as that a lot of the non-base functionality is in built-in extensions?