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I can't edit my message anymore so I reply here. After reviewing the facts by discussing them with nknighthb it appears the warning message that prompted me to

I can't edit my message anymore so I reply here. After reviewing the facts by discussing them with nknighthb it appears the warning message that prompted me to blame Mozilla for a confusing warning message was due to Oracle and their Java warning pop-up. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/202857/java.png https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/202857/java.png My apologies :], I am a little bit ashamed for not spotting it sooner.

jtheory 13y ago
Thanks for clarifying! This is honestly what makes the Firefox warnings even more damaging than they already are. If a brave user decides to click past the "DO NOT ENTER" sign on the Firefox warning, they are immediately presented with another worrying warning, popped up by the Java plugin. What kind of fool says "yes, please go ahead and do this dangerous thing" when two separate pieces of software have already told them not to? Not most, unfortunately. At least I can make the Java plugin warning dialog be relatively calm by signing my JARs. The Firefox one is completely beyond my control. I'd like to know if the Firefox developers have details on exploits that bypass the Java plugin dialogs. If they do, I'd like to know as well. If they don't, that means they're duplicating a security feature that's already in the plugin... what's the good of that? It just confuses and frightens the users of valid, secure Java applets.