My main concern is the lack of interest in the security problems being raised and the constant attempt at silencing of people raising issues or silence itself. Not just this bug but other links were provided on and the developers deliberate attempt at ignoring or or shutting down discussion. This isnt just about one bug. Dont be so naive. The developer is selling a product on a given feature, privacy and they neither care about it or have the ability to implement privacy properly. HAve you checked the other links? Have you seen all the other privacy issues raised and how the developer has responded to them?
What about the people who believe them that the browser is private when its not? What if genuinely someone relied on its privacy for their important work but in reality its not? This isnt about the developer. Its bigger than that and your ignorance on this is kind of part of the problem.
And he is 100% right on this. The whole thread, or even that it got posted here on in shows the problem. It was just a bug. The maintainer fixed it. Open source works. It makes no sense to throw the whole project under the bus, just because one maintainer made a mistake, that happened to he a security problem. The last day this project closed 12 issues. Why is one issue, that was closed 7 months ago, such a problem, that we discuss this here? This is FUD against the project.