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It has also already caused economic damage as well as waisting a lot of people's time. https://reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/7k7wum/when_all_online
by jimktrains2 9y ago
It has also already caused economic damage as well as waisting a lot of people's time. https://reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/7k7wum/when_all_online_tests_are_invalidated_blame_mr/ https://reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/7k7wum/wh...
- chris_wot 9y agoIncredible. Mozilla really screwed up on this one.
- Piskvorrr 9y agoThis. Apparently, we're still waiting for a Therac-class incident before "don't mess with critical infrastructure for what seems harmless fun to you" will even register on the radar with the "move fast and break other people's things" crowd.
- Dylan16807 9y agoThat story, uh. If you cut off the last couple sentences it would be somewhat convincing. In its entirety it just suggests a very broken process. Where an automatic extension invalidates firefox, but renaming chrome.exe to firefox doesn't invalidate firefox!?
- jimktrains2 9y agoPerhaps Chrome is also supported by the testing infrastructure, but they chose to use only firefox?
- nallerooth 9y agoOr, they have multiple scripts running in the background which assume there is a `firefox` process. In such a case the smallest (and quickest) change is to rename the binary.