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> A good outcome of this certificate fiasco is that many firefox users learned about the "studies" and "Normandy" brain-damage and promptly disabled them. I'm

> A good outcome of this certificate fiasco is that many firefox users learned about the "studies" and "Normandy" brain-damage and promptly disabled them. I'm actually curious about how the common user reacted to this. There isn't a clue about this on (1) the add-on page, (2) Mozilla's home page, (3) no emails sent out (I get plenty of other emails from Mozilla). Currently, when you try and (re)install an "unsupported" add-on, you get a cryptic message stating: "Download failed. Please check your connection." So the only communication from Mozilla is that it's my fault and I need to "check" my connection. Honestly... there's so much fail here - even at the communication level.

bscphil 7y ago
>I'm actually curious about how the common user reacted to this. There isn't a clue about this on (1) the add-on page, (2) Mozilla's home page, (3) no emails sent out (I get plenty of other emails from Mozilla). That's a good question. Of course we have to assume we're talking about the common add-on user, since some users don't have addons. An incredible 3.2 million users (out of 10 million daily active) attempted to download Adblock Plus on Saturday, after it was disabled. Some of these might be duplicates of course, but I think this suggests: (1) most users who use addons noticed when they were disabled (2) most of them were confused (at least initially) about the reason this happened, since there was no direct communication from Mozilla about the problem in the browser itself (3) many of these attempted to redownload their extensions as a solution to the problem https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/statistics/?last=30 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/...