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Mozilla bakes Facebook features into Firefox 17

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  • Started 6 months ago by vistamike
  • Latest reply from GuiltySpark
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vistamike
vistamike
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AGgghhhhh, do we need this?

If you don't turn, off the auto update 'feature'.

http://www.computerworld.com/s.....2012-11-21

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vistual
vistual
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1+ "AGgghhhhh" ...

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gedstar
gedstar
Posts: 521

I must be missing something, just upgraded to V17 and haven't notice anything different.

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vistamike
vistamike
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Ged, you lucky, lucky!

I might after backing up...........

Stand by for reports.

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Xhi
Xhi
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It allows Web Site developers do do something special, It is not evident unless you go to a web site that takes advantage of the feature. It along with a lot of other Crap is easily ignored.

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gedstar
gedstar
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I have Adblock for Firefox installed not sure if that makes a difference!

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/

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vistamike
vistamike
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I'm doing it now

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StringJunky
StringJunky
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It says FF is getting silent updates, I think that's a good thing, I stopped using it because I got fed up with the user-controlled updates every five minutes having to restart...too chatty.

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vistamike
vistamike
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Well, running 17 and so far, and there appears to be no problems, all ex's run as I need.
No sign of facebook etc

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Drizzle
Drizzle
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Updated couple of hours ago.
I don't do facebook twitter or whatever :):)
Like gedstar... I have ABP and have not seen anything unusual appearing.
I do like the extra clarifying on addons etc that are not compatible,allowing you to not search for compatibilities if you don't use them

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GuiltySpark
GuiltySpark
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I have not noticed a difference in FF17 in terms of the FB integration, but then again I don't use FB so have not been to their site to download the sidebar integration platform.

However I did find in the Config files "social.sidebar.open" was set to "true", I have changed this to "false".

And there was something about the FB integration URL which I removed, now it no longer shows in the config settings.

But, I do not use FB so cannot test if this is a way round it.

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