Manifest v3-based extensions are coming and google is gonna force it. Like firefox is going to be forced to accept it because of the sheer market share of chrome/chromium
Probably because of the privacy issue you mentioned; OCSP requests can reveal your activity to the CA and, if sent in the clear, to others on your local network. Just because it is not very granular, one should not assume that users will be fine with it; it breaks the assumption of, “when I visit site A only A and sites it embeds will know of my visit,“ to have your activity made known to a certificate authority.
MacOS had an developer code-signing OCSP issue not too long ago that made people more aware of the privacy implications of OCSPs rather than CRLs, I would not be surprised if LibreWolf changed this setting in part due to that.
Probably a way to prevent device fingerprinting; I know Tor’s TTB fork of Firefox includes a warning/disable mechanism for canvas fingerprinting, WebGL probably provides a similar source of de-anonymising information.
See, I think this is the root of the problem; Firefox is arguing the same thing with regard to its “features”, Firefox and you/I have a difference of opinion where the balance is, and when there a mismatch, that privacy is vulnerable by default.
I would much prefer what you have experienced with LibreWolf, where privacy was the default, and the user needs to loosen restrictions.
Fail safe, rather than fail unsafe, if you will.
I am not so sure; the marketshare of users who use extensions is probably much less skewed toward Chrome than the marketshare of all users. Still in Chrome’s favour I would bet, but less so.
So is there no chance the leadership of Mozilla will look to increasing marketshare, over the current tactic of wringing whatever monetary deals they seem to be looking at?
6% does in fact seem tiny, but at the same time, that is a heck of a lot more than desktop linux, so not completely insignificant.
I presume Edge+chromium is heading upwards as FF goes down?
And edge+chromium is apparently not a horrendous pile of crap