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Comment Re:Context please (Score 1) 163

Nah. It'll be the day Firefox doesn't need to die with every upgrade because the old extension structure was more or less direct access to every little nook and cranny, which sounds like "full power" but really meant that the bigger the extension was, the more it was (for all intents) rewriting Firefox.

The newer style doesn't have breakage, has proper privilege separation, process separation, etc etc, and the browser itself won't break everything because of Dave's Way Cool Website Toolbar.

And you still have the actual freakin' source code if you want to make internal changes to the browser.. which will also be more stable, and upstream to everyone if it's a cool idea.

Comment Re:Tipping Point (Score 1) 85

The main reason websites had a split between Secure and Unsecure before was due to processing overhead and, depending on how far you go back, actual regulation of encryption by Congress.

Encryption is now a very small time cost on servers and an accepted cost anyway due to the even greater eventual cost of MITM attacks.

It's also a benefit as it makes it harder for someone to passively know exactly what you're reading. Nobody can follow you around and see which specific articles you are reading on Wikipedia, for example, they can only tell that you're going to Wikipedia.

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