> we support people configuring their browser however they choose
I rate this one as half true. If you leave firefox for a while and come back, it displays a bar with text like "Would you like to refresh your experience?" The first time I clicked that, it uninstalled my adblock extension. Not making that mistake again.
It's like Microsoft acknowledging the crust in the registry and offering their own CCleaner. A lot of activity, dubious work actually being done.
Perhaps the effect of profile lifecycles should be addressed if some hand-wavy refresh process may be required and instituted by the application.
Said another way, that's a concern for the program. Not me. This shouldn't amount to wiping the profile/extensions
I don't remember if the refresh offer appeared back in the xul days, when there was much more scope for extensions to hurt the experience.
the suggestion that its purpose is to trick people into uninstalling their adblocker is a ridiculous one
Adblockers aren’t bloat; they make the web faster and more secure.
“ridiculous”
Mozilla’s paymasters are an advertising company.
re: "ridiculous", do you think it's likely that there's a deep conspiracy within mozilla (at the behest of google) to make users watch ads? or were you hoping that they'd write a whitelist of adblockers that should never be removed, even when wiping the browser?
Sweeping things under the rug, you know?
A browser should have history, data, and extensions. Getting rid of those things doesn't qualify as a fix. It's a diagnostic step!