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Way to completely miss the point-Windows is NOT stopping him from doing anything-Firefox is. The problem lies within the NSS (security stack) inside of Firefox.
by a2tech 17y ago
Way to completely miss the point-Windows is NOT stopping him from doing anything-Firefox is. The problem lies within the NSS (security stack) inside of Firefox. NSS is integral to Firefox but is not in the main source-it is a separate project. Firefox checks the binaries when it launches to verify that NSS is a Mozilla signed build. So to build Firefox to fix the problem, you must:
Download Firefox source and NSS source
Make the fix in the NSS source
Edit the Firefox source to remove the Mozilla signed binaries check
Build everything and hope it works
There are MANY perfectly true complaints about Windows and the Windows software development world-but this is problem is all Firefox.