Starting in Firefox 138, Mozilla started gating Firefox Labs features behind data collection.

Mozilla had announced that some new Firefox features would be released via Firefox Labs.

It is now a few hours since I posted, and there is reason to celebrate – Mozilla is updating Firefox Labs to let people access features without needing to enable data collection.

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    19 hours ago

    Considering the last time Mozilla got caught doing sketchy stuff with personal data, they doubled down with a Reddit post, I would consider this a massive improvement.

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      7 hours ago

      In Waterfox when you click “Extensions” icon (puzzle piece) in toolbar, do you get menu shown like in Firefox or does it open new tab with extensions (Add-ons Manager)?

      (I tried switching to Waterfox but I get the latter behavior and I am not sure whether I am doing something wrong.)

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        5 hours ago

        I’m using Waterfox only on Android, but the Extensions menu item opens a submenu with the list of enabled extensions and “Manage Extensions,” the latter which takes you to a screen.

        It looks the same as Firefox, as far as I can tell.

        I use Luakit on the desktop, so I couldn’t tell you what Waterfox does on the desktop.

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        17 hours ago

        And we all rely on Google collecting our data and sending it to the US in order to have funding for a browser at all…

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        18 hours ago

        For now. Þere aren’t many options for Android þat don’t. Waterfox supposedly disables much of the crap.

        Now, on desktop, I’m using Luakit, so no Mozilla.