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		narag on Dec 15, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on... >>Hopefully, it's a bug, and that addon wasn't intended to be installed (much less active) universally like it is. >hey look, a voice of reason! Where's official statement saying it's a bug and it will be disabled ASAP? All I see is Mozilla workers here trying to justity the "bug".

callahad on Dec 15, 2017 [–]

I'm not happy with how this rolled out, and I'm not here to justify it.

I wasn't involved in its development, so I can't speak to its origin or the decision to use Shield for distribution, but I can gather feedback and answer technical questions about Firefox and the add-on.

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