And I am a fan of making such functionality part of the browser :P : one less addon to manage & trust! Aside: the amount of insecure code in addons is scary, see https://palant.info/categories/security/ , not to mention that addons are also a frequent cause of performance trouble (source: me, experienced several times). Thus, the more dubious addon code I'm able to replace with somewhat-well-maintained-and-audited Firefox code with many eyeballs on it, the better.
(At this point, you or a passerby will point at the Pocket fiasco and argue that there's too much stuff shoved into our browsers and just stahp it already. Fair, and I love lean software too. I'd still like this specific feature because A. it's not Pocket, B. it aligns well with what Firefox is doing these days, and C. it aligns with what I expect from my user agent of choice).
Then, supposing this ever makes its way into Fx, you can choose not to use it. And by the way, maybe like you, I will make the same choice if the Fx feature is too basic! But it will remain a win, for the users for whom it's good enough and who would never have bothered with an addon in the first place. Just like ETP vs. uBlock / PrivacyBadger / etc: ETP is a good basic "80%/20%" risk-less step in the right direction, and addons remains way ahead if you the user decide to bother a bit more.
> "telling Firefox to disable [HTTPS only] mode for a specific site doesn't always work."
(At this point, you or a passerby will point at the Pocket fiasco and argue that there's too much stuff shoved into our browsers and just stahp it already. Fair, and I love lean software too. I'd still like this specific feature because A. it's not Pocket, B. it aligns well with what Firefox is doing these days, and C. it aligns with what I expect from my user agent of choice).
Then, supposing this ever makes its way into Fx, you can choose not to use it. And by the way, maybe like you, I will make the same choice if the Fx feature is too basic! But it will remain a win, for the users for whom it's good enough and who would never have bothered with an addon in the first place. Just like ETP vs. uBlock / PrivacyBadger / etc: ETP is a good basic "80%/20%" risk-less step in the right direction, and addons remains way ahead if you the user decide to bother a bit more.
> "telling Firefox to disable [HTTPS only] mode for a specific site doesn't always work."
This looks like a bug that you should report.