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One thing I miss from MacOS is the built-in dictionary everywhere; it was part of the OS.

Well, I mostly want to use it in a browser.

*look up Firefox browser extensions for dictionaries*

they are all useless.

I open Qwen, tell it what I want and which dictionary API that I want to use.

60 seconds later it's done. It works great.

Beautiful, perfect.

Except what the fuck, Firefox won't let me have this extension permanently? It has to be submitted through the store???????????????

@feld there's a white label version of firefox you can install that allows unpacked extensions. it is precisely for dev purposes

@sun why is everyone trying to kill enthusiasm for making things by putting up these bullshit barriers? at least give me a magic debug switch to turn off the helicopter parenting by Mozilla HQ

@feld @sun Wasn't there a developer mode toggle in the extensions settings menu, or they did decided to get rid of that for stupid reasons? Even dumb chrome allows you to install extensions outside the store.

@phnt @feld i think they changed it so you have to install a completely separate binary because they got tired of normal users gettijg hacked through the custom extension doorway

@phnt @feld hear me out

what if

what if

firefox checked a registry key that can only be set by admin, to enable extensions

@sun @feld Or a big warning popped up with a checkbox you have to tick. Or something similar to about://config

@phnt@pl.borked.technology @sun@shitposter.world @feld@friedcheese.us they already did, they will just click okay without reading. nothing will ever happen until a developer says "it's your fault you didn't read the warning. nothing needs to change" until then it will be continual appeasement forever