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While I understand you not wanting Mozilla to be able to push urgent patches, this is (in my) opinion necessary in sufficently serious cases. Imagine a remote c
by CJefferson 9y ago
While I understand you not wanting Mozilla to be able to push urgent patches, this is (in my) opinion necessary in sufficently serious cases. Imagine a remote code execution hole in Firefox, being actively attacked through ad networks. In that situation, every minute counts, and an attack could perform serious damage.
- eps 9y ago"The road to hell is paved with good intentions." It's not about denying Mozilla an option of pushing zero-day patches. It's about the fact that it's a built-in always-on _concealed_ feature.
- Sylos 9y agoThe source code is public, there's probably been a blog post about it, there's an about-page for it, and there actually is a setting for it in the main-UI. I really don't see how it's particularly concealed. If they actually tried to conceal it, you would not know about it at all.