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Would have disabling automatic updates have prevented this entire issue?
Don't think so, from what I understand, the problem was the intermediate certificate expired, it would have expired regardless if there were no automatic updates.
I'm interested in the general writeup what went wrong that they missed this certificate expiring. That's a structural problem. Also why it took 6 hrs to assign P1 to the bug
I understand why an add-on update or new installation would be prevented from succeeding by a certificate expiration. But why would a certificate expiration prevent an already-installed from running? Any already-installed add-ons were previously validated at installation time and should (IMO) run as-is. It seems unnecessary to continuously check the status of an add-on's certificate if it has not been changed. Am I missing something?
Instead of enabling studies just click on this link. It installs that specific "study" (hotfix) without installing anything else. https://storage.googleapis.com/moz-fx-normandy-prod-addons/e...
How do I uninstall this? It doesn't show up anywhere after installation.
I have a bunch of privacy-enhancing addons installed, which have now all been disabled. If I hadn't read HN this morning, I wouldn't even have known why. Until now, I had no idea that it was even possible to remotely disable my addons. And now Mozilla are saying that the "fix" is to allow them to install & run "studies" on my machine? What are they smoking? I'm having a hard time trusting a company that randomly & re…
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They closed the trees (stopped merging other code changes to prioritize this) for the bug I would assume the delay in assigning P1 is really just a result of assigning P1 not being as high priority as fixing the damn problem.
This is one of the things about this whole episode that I find baffling. Stuff like adjusting bug priorities and arranging for someone to tweet an announcement is the work of a good engineering manager. This is the right person to run interference and handle comms and deal with things outside of the critical path, like bugzilla updates.
I have a bunch of privacy-enhancing addons installed, which have now all been disabled. If I hadn't read HN this morning, I wouldn't even have known why. Until now, I had no idea that it was even possible to remotely disable my addons. And now Mozilla are saying that the "fix" is to allow them to install & run "studies" on my machine? What are they smoking? I'm having a hard time trusting a company that randomly & re…
I have a bunch of privacy-enhancing addons installed, which have now all been disabled. If I hadn't read HN this morning, I wouldn't even have known why. Until now, I had no idea that it was even possible to remotely disable my addons. And now Mozilla are saying that the "fix" is to allow them to install & run "studies" on my machine? What are they smoking? I'm having a hard time trusting a company that randomly & re…
I have a bunch of privacy-enhancing addons installed, which have now all been disabled. If I hadn't read HN this morning, I wouldn't even have known why. Until now, I had no idea that it was even possible to remotely disable my addons. And now Mozilla are saying that the "fix" is to allow them to install & run "studies" on my machine? What are they smoking? I'm having a hard time trusting a company that randomly & re…