Re:Mozilla patches two use-after-free vulnerabilities (ab)us...
by consumer451 on Saturday March 05, 2022 @10:26PM
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I would also like to point out that I would absolutely pay $5/month via something like a Patreon which funded an organized group of security minded devs to work on Firefox security issues.
Re:Mozilla patches two use-after-free vulnerabilities (ab)us...
by RupertHandjob on Sunday March 06, 2022 @01:36AM
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It's not a money issue. It's money allocation problem. Mozilla has plenty of money they just don't care about security that much. They care more about Pocket and other useless junk that probably nobody, but they care about.
I use Firefox, but only because of "browser diversification" and privacy. Other options are worse not because Firefox is a superior product. It's sad really.
Re:Mozilla patches two use-after-free vulnerabilities (ab)us...
by consumer451 on Sunday March 06, 2022 @05:16AM
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Yeah, I have to say that this is the only tech product that I am very emotional about at this point in my life. I want Firefox to win so bad, even now, as I’m leaving it.
But I feel like I would be doing a disservice to myself, and my employers, by continuing to use a less secure browser, just because I’m religious about Mozilla.
Re:Mozilla patches two use-after-free vulnerabilities (ab)us...
by consumer451 on Saturday March 05, 2022 @08:20PM
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Turns out I was thinking of pwn2own in 2016 [0]. Can anyone update me on how Firefox does these days at CTFs?
[0] https://it.slashdot.org/story/16/02/12/034206/pwn2own-2016-w...
I’ve known about the security team, and I remember hearing that even prior to that, a CTF event had banned Firefox exploits as too easy.
I am doing it next time I open my work laptop. I mean what is the single most important class of features in a browser? Security. I feel dumb for waiting so long.
This makes me sad. I was emotionally invested invested in Mozilla and that caused an error in judgment.