Trademark, not copyright. Different rules apply.

Yes, as TFA says, if you are running in developer mode you can install anything you like. Of course, it comes with all the downsides of developer mode (such as annoying warning dialogs).

The problem with being required to use the store isn't the cost of doing so. Even if it were 100% free, it would still be a bad thing.

For the time being, but Mozilla keeps making Firefox worse and worse. If that trend continues even a little while longer, then FF won't be a viable alternative anymore.

According to TFA, you won't be able to do this anymore. Any extensions that aren't in the store can't be installed, and any already-installed extensions that aren't in the store will be permanently disabled.

So they're just collateral damage, then?

...and yet another good reason to avoid using Chrome.

That he cannot release top secret information in a public forum doesn't mean that the only other option he has is to lie. He could also say "I can't discuss that in a public forum." If he'd done that, he might have a shred of credibility left now. However, that he is fully willing to lie to Congress means that it's unwise to believe a single thing he says.

With precious few exceptions, they are most certainly not our advocates. By and large, the are the advocates of corporate interests and the very wealthy.

I'll blame everyone who voted in favor of this travesty.

Rubbing salt in the wound is that people are saying that "it will still outlaw the practice of bulk collection of US telephone metadata by the NSA first revealed by Snowden". The implication is that the practice of bulk collection of US telephone metadata is outlawed, when in fact it's not. It's been further legalized. The change is just where the data is stored -- which is no real change at all.

"JJ didn't made a bad job with Star Trek (way better than any previous ST movie previously release than JJ ones)."

I couldn't disagree more. The Abrams Star Treks were, in my opinion, the worst of the lot by far. They were bad movies that often made no sense at all, but even worse (and unforgivable) was that they failed to even try to stay true to the established Star Trek universe.

I expect the same treatment of Star Wars. That is, a hatchet job.

"Honestly most Star Trek movies were bad"

Half of them were. The Star Trek movies seemed to have the same weird "every other release is crap" bug that Microsoft has had since forever.

After the unforgivable hatchet job he pulled on Star Trek, I don't trust JJ Abrams with any more of my childhood playthings.

Ownership by Facebook immediately makes it technology I don't want. Not now, not ever.

Yes, me too. I do my best to avoid giving Facebook a dime of my money, and unfortunately this must include OR being something I can't purchase. That FB bought them turned them from being a source of palpable excitement to a source of sadness and longing for what could have been.

They killed it for me. They proved that the cloud cannot be trusted.