Mozilla Firefox: "All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert"

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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Checking every 24 hours is phoning home? They are monitoring me to ensure I haven't installed any non-signed Add Ons.

[–]wizzwizz4 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I don't think it requests the certificate anew, though. According to my theory, the bug would still occur if you disconnected the internet connection. That's why they couldn't just patch it server-side, and had to push something through to the actual installed copies of Firefox – using the push-through system that's easy to turn off and I can't remember whether it's on by default.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I think it's all enabled by default. I'm done with Mozilla, someone out there respects their own goddamn users.

I just read a story about how they popped up special Mr Robot ads to everyone a few years ago.

[–]ikidd 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

What's the choice, Google Chrome, or Google Edge, or Google Chromium, or Google Vivaldi?

Overall, Firefox is the closest thing we have to a large userbase browser with fair support that isn't part of the Google spying machine.

[–]wizzwizz4 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well, there are Firefox forks.