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It's a company with less than a thousand employees, compared to Google's 100k. The author didn't even state what their extension was, so for all we know it coul

It's a company with less than a thousand employees, compared to Google's 100k. The author didn't even state what their extension was, so for all we know it could be a legitimately sketchy add-on with tons of bloated JS that requires extensive review.

gilrain 5y ago
Is uBlock Origin being unable to update any more concerning to you? https://reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/pv15k2/_/he7qm5u/?context=1 https://reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/pv15k2/_/he7qm5u/?cont...
- prophesi 5y ago
  Their latest version was released on Sept 15th, 10 days ago. Can't imagine this version has been in manual review for even a week. Edit: Nevermind, it was submitted 10 days ago. The latest on Firefox is from months ago. Concerning, but I've had plenty of apps on the App/Play store take longer for review with the most innocuous updates. We moved to OTA updates because of this.
  - gorhill 5y ago
    The issue is the signing of self-hosted dev builds being stalled. It had always taken only a few minutes before I would get a self-hosted dev build to be signed, allowing for the dev build to be used by volunteers so as to be able to spot regressions. I haven't been able to get a signed self-hosted dev build for 12 days now. This means I can't move forward with a stable Firefox release -- which is manually reviewed and is expected to take a number of days. The signed self-hosted dev builds are required steps to keep releasing stable releases, and they are currently stalled for unknown reasons.
    - AlexAndScripts 5y ago
      That's really weird, I did that multiple times in the last week and it's taken 5-15 minutes - albeit with a simple, plain JS, ~1000 loc extension.
    - fartcannon 5y ago
      Has this been resolved yet? Should we collectively be reading between the lines?
thayne 5y ago
What does number of employees have to do with anything? First of all, most addons don't undergo a manual review process, so this means something is wrong with their automated system. Secondly, Google does a whole lot more than just make a browser so comparing total employees of the two companies is meaningless.

gilrain 5y ago

Is uBlock Origin being unable to update any more concerning to you? https://reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/pv15k2/_/he7qm5u/?context=1 https://reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/pv15k2/_/he7qm5u/?cont...

prophesi 5y ago
Their latest version was released on Sept 15th, 10 days ago. Can't imagine this version has been in manual review for even a week. Edit: Nevermind, it was submitted 10 days ago. The latest on Firefox is from months ago. Concerning, but I've had plenty of apps on the App/Play store take longer for review with the most innocuous updates. We moved to OTA updates because of this.
- gorhill 5y ago
  The issue is the signing of self-hosted dev builds being stalled. It had always taken only a few minutes before I would get a self-hosted dev build to be signed, allowing for the dev build to be used by volunteers so as to be able to spot regressions. I haven't been able to get a signed self-hosted dev build for 12 days now. This means I can't move forward with a stable Firefox release -- which is manually reviewed and is expected to take a number of days. The signed self-hosted dev builds are required steps to keep releasing stable releases, and they are currently stalled for unknown reasons.
  - AlexAndScripts 5y ago
    That's really weird, I did that multiple times in the last week and it's taken 5-15 minutes - albeit with a simple, plain JS, ~1000 loc extension.
  - fartcannon 5y ago
    Has this been resolved yet? Should we collectively be reading between the lines?

thayne 5y ago

What does number of employees have to do with anything? First of all, most addons don't undergo a manual review process, so this means something is wrong with their automated system. Secondly, Google does a whole lot more than just make a browser so comparing total employees of the two companies is meaningless.