Yup, sounds great to me. I could see a world in which it becomes a bad thing because they try to enforce it by pulling a Google and blocking users from installing extensions that aren’t through their official add-on store, but as it is, it’s hard to see any reasonable criticism.
This is a great change. I wonder how long before the hate brigade comes along to complain.
You’ve got a downvote, so it seems not long. 😄
Yup, sounds great to me. I could see a world in which it becomes a bad thing because they try to enforce it by pulling a Google and blocking users from installing extensions that aren’t through their official add-on store, but as it is, it’s hard to see any reasonable criticism.
They can’t unlike google they don’t have any leverage to enforce it. They only have a small market share.
insert rant about Mozilla CEO
It’s not clear whether it’s a useless disclosure or enforced by the API.
Some extensions have a verified/recommended by Mozilla seal of approval, so these extensions would be checked by a human to see that they comply.
Obviously they can’t check every update of every extension in existence, but even just the above is an improvement and certainly not useless.
I don’t think this could be enforced by the API without also seriously limiting what extensions can do, which people would go crazy about if they did.