If you like Firefox, stop recommending huge lists of plugins to new users, and don’t reblog posts that do
I don’t care if it “works great for me.” I don’t care if every plugin on your list is well maintained and well vetted.
Plugin interraction is complex and unpredictable. “Works on my machine” is the worst kind of anecdotal evidence. I have seen IT professionals who roll out privacy-conscious plugin configurations to hundreds or thousands of machines and their lists of plugins are always very short. As soon as a list of plugins hits any sort large-scale testing, you start seeing how many ways plugin interrraction can go wrong.
The best way to put new users off Firefox is to saddle them down with a bad configuration, and your long list of favorite plugins is just that.
“Huge” is anything more than, oh, three or four. Honestly four is pushing it.















