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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Or make it so that people have a choice to add some of the extension features when installing the browser. Debloating is not fun

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sometimes it feels like debloating is a hobby to people with little to show for it

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Well, the whole point of debloating is to end up with little in the way of stuff instead of lots of stuff ;)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do get that and used to do a lot of it myself, but usually the results are just fairly minor. That's what I meant by it seeming more like a hobby than something hugely beneficial

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I suspected so, but the way you worded it was just asking (neigh, demanding) to be "misunderstood" for humouristic purposes :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think it's just me not being a native speaker and being lazy with my wording

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not a criticism.

As far as I can tell (not a native speaker myself) it was properly worded and I only acted as if I had misunderstood it for humouristic purposes.

I've done it for actual expressions used by native speakers by simulating language ignorance and interpreting them in a literal way, for fun, just like I did here.

Sorry if it sounded like a criticism - I meant to just take the piss in a friendly way.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

No worries, I didn't take it in a bad way

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Most people don't want a 45th prompt when they just want to install firefox to check facebook and their mail

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

True, also wouldn't be too much work. Just some additional dialogues on first start up asking you which plugins you'd like installed