I have walked in the spirit world. I have opened my third nostril. I have boosted my own toots.
Oh yeah, I remember debian’s Firefox used to be called something else for trademark reasons some years ago. I wonder how much linux market share firefox lost as a result. Not sure what changed, I guess in that case Mozilla must’ve come to their senses. I was mostly an ubuntu user in those days.
… lwn has the story: https://lwn.net/Articles/676799/
Telemetry can be turned off without modifying the code. I don’t know about the legality of it, maybe in the case of Firefox the other things they do are also at most build options rather than code changes. But generally distros are allowed to make changes to the packages they distribute, that is how free software works.
I wonder if mine would’ve been counted there. Even before I switched to Librewolf, Debian disables most of the telemetry.
That would depend on the parameters of “possible” but it has no bearing on the topic at hand. It seems likely that you ask due to mistaking the idea of not requiring everything to be periodically re-signed by Mozilla in order to keep running for the unrelated idea of not checking the signature at all.
P.S. Okay that may be slightly wrong but I mean it’s not as if two-years-old keys are automatically compromised just because they’re that old. If there’s reason to believe they’re at risk, let them be revoked for cause.
There are many slightly different options I suppose, but personally I’d start with the simple and obvious approach suggested by the principle of least surprise: Check the expiry date on the extension signing cert only when an extension is installed. On subsequent startups, attempt to check for revocations.
Software should not self-destruct if it can’t reach the mothership.
Signing certs should be expected to expire. Already-installed browser extensions signed by them should not, when the user doesn’t want them to.
Doing it the right way would prevent, for one thing, any possible repeat of the problem they had a couple years ago when they simply forgot to renew the cert and one day everyone’s browsers unexpectedly stopped working with no way to fix them short of making a new build. The debate was had then, you can go back and read what was said. A thorough review was promised. Presumably Mozilla came came to the wrong conclusion and decided it would be best not to publicise it much.
Have they fixed the problem properly yet, or is there a future expiration date coming for the new version as well?
approx $6.84USD
Huh. So definitely not worth it then. Just buy a space heater instead. When I did it a few years ago I got $500 out of it, but it cost me a $350 video card which died soon after.
Good luck GNOME users! If Xfce ever added a donation button I would not be donating again.