[Dev] Iceweasel and AppManager

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On 01/19/2015 08:09 PM, Distopico Vegan wrote:
> 
> why iceweasel disable this functionality?
> 
> I want a distribution that gives me freedom without cut any software 
> 
*** Although I agree with that position, especially the part that
software freedom should be empowering and not restrictive, I also like
Emulatorman's approach for the simple reason that it shows how heavily
people rely on "granted features".  For example the disabled
LocalStorage alllowed me to discover a bug in Qvitter because the
developer didn't check for the availability of that feature in one
instance, where he checked for it everywhere else.

Given the number of "temporary bridges" and "emergency laws" that stand
more time than they're supposed to, aiming at minimalism is very sane.

One thing that should be done, but it is not always easy would be to
warn the user that something is asking for that missing functionality
that has been disabled, and offer to activate it (opt-in).

In the Web browser, this will happen more and more, as every party want
to get into your desktop or your device, and will use such tricks to do
it surreptitiously.

==
hk

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