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Re:Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage by phist_mcgee on Thursday May 09, 2019 @11:17PM (#19874769)
What did you expect to happen? You're using an online service connected to signing authorities. Of course it can be remotely broken at any time, that's how the internet works, it's all remote.
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Re:Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage by TeMPOraL on Friday May 10, 2019 @05:32AM (#19876310)
He's using a product. A product. Having it attached to on-line service is not a feature.

I think part of the reason this fiasco stirs up so much emotions is because normal people, including tech professionals, still expect the browser to behave like a product, not a service. And products aren't supposed to randomly break like that, they aren't supposed to ship with a time bomb attached.

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Re:Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage by brokenmachine on Friday May 10, 2019 @12:37AM (#19875087)
> What did you expect to happen?

Not this? I didn't think things would break with updates disabled.

Like I said, now I've been educated on a new mechanism for things to break.

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