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Update Regarding Add-Ons in Firefox

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Re: Update Regarding Add-Ons in Firefox

#31

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

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.

Re: Update Regarding Add-Ons in Firefox

#32
post #12

Mozilla has been on the downward spiral over the last several years. They took something (i.e. Firefox) that wasn't broken and "fixed" it until it was, first by killing off XPCOM and then suffering through the misadventures of such bastard products as Firefox OS. The folks at Mozilla should really stick to what their good at and focus on an all around open source browser that people will actually WANT to use.

That doesn’t make money which kinda is required to work on Firefox.

But they have money to trow at Antifa fascists.

Re: Update Regarding Add-Ons in Firefox

#33
post #12

Mozilla has been on the downward spiral over the last several years. They took something (i.e. Firefox) that wasn't broken and "fixed" it until it was, first by killing off XPCOM and then suffering through the misadventures of such bastard products as Firefox OS. The folks at Mozilla should really stick to what their good at and focus on an all around open source browser that people will actually WANT to use.

Mozilla killed XPCOM because it was actively preventing improving Firefox. In particular, Firefox could finally go multiprocess, and other improvements of the Quantum project are slowly being incorporated.

Re: Update Regarding Add-Ons in Firefox

#37
post #18

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...

Hold up there. Before people start clicking and installing random add-on links, how about linking to something official (either from a FF dev, or in a soure repository) that references this URL?
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