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Re:Firefox is on a slippery slope by Dylan16807 on Sunday December 17, 2017 @02:32PM (#15947227)
That story, uh. If you cut off the last couple sentences it would be somewhat convincing. In its entirety it just suggests a very broken process. Where an automatic extension invalidates firefox, but renaming chrome.exe to firefox doesn't invalidate firefox!?
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Re:Firefox is on a slippery slope by nallerooth on Monday December 18, 2017 @05:26AM (#15950677)
Or, they have multiple scripts running in the background which assume there is a `firefox` process. In such a case the smallest (and quickest) change is to rename the binary.
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Re:Firefox is on a slippery slope by jimktrains2 on Monday December 18, 2017 @01:39AM (#15949901)
Perhaps Chrome is also supported by the testing infrastructure, but they chose to use only firefox?
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