Re:Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage
by TeMPOraL on Friday May 10, 2019 @05:32AM
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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.
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.