On 1 October 2010 11:17, Wolfgang Bornath <molc...@googlemail.com> wrote: > 2010/10/1 Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vign...@gmail.com>: >> On 1 October 2010 10:44, Wolfgang Bornath <molc...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>> Which extionsion a user wants to instaall should be left to the user's >>> decision. Make the install easy but do not install any extensions by >>> default. I've never used those extensions, except the developper bar. >>> Somebody told me to install Adblock and whatever, I did and FF became >>> unstable but not one second faster. >>> Maybe because I do not visit many sites with large ads and all that >>> bling-bling stuff. >>> >>> Anyhow, as a rule do not add any stuff by default that the user ought >>> to decide for himself, this is not Windows. We should not tell the >>> user what he wants to do. >> >> Then we shouldn't install neither firefox nor konqueror at all since >> that's a choice that the user ought to decide for himself... > > C'mon, a browser is not the same as a browser extension. Of course > there must be defaults. But installing browser extensions by default > is too much "default" IMHO. Same as with mail clients. You should set > a mail client by default but you should not add any extensions to this > client by default. > > wobo >
Usually the more the extensions you have the heavier/more-ram/more-startup-time firefox gets (and the last time I used AdBlock Plus, about 10 months ago, it leaked memory...). Also it's not useful all over, I think I can do without it if I have noscript installed, (now what would you say if noscript is installed by default?). IMHO, I think no extra extensions should be installed by default, the user should make a choice of which ones he wants (and installing any extensions by default without the "user's consent" isn't ideal too, if it's going to impact the performance of Firefox). -- Ahmad Samir
