[UncleMeat]

> Mozilla, please, I want a browser that I, as a "power user" can manage. Not an idiot-proof remotely managed on-prem SaaS.

Then you need to accept that Firefox will linger at a very low number of users and many of those users will be left with insecure browsers because they fail to update them properly. Maybe that's a fine thing, but that's the world you need to accept if Firefox is explicitly targeting power users.

[labawi]

It's not either or. They could make it easy do disable all various background activity, document users prefs and respect provided settings (perhaps with different branding), accept targeted donations etc.

Firefox is already providing automatic updates. Would it be so bad to release a point version (do they even to that anymore) instead of a remote preference change?

Still, it's not exclusive - they could do both, while providing a clear power user mode, where you may need to update, because they don't do such shenanigans.

It's not an idle offer - I'm offering 1k€ to properly document user prefs and not second guess their setting (could be a compile time switch, possibly with altered branding, but on a supported/LTS versions). Anyone want to set up a gofund me or something?