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driverdan ◴[] No.19823850[source]
First they force code signing on everyone without a way to disable it then they break it. This is an extreme level of incompetence I didn't expect from Mozilla.

They'd better have the best post mortum ever, possibly with someone being fired.

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steve19 ◴[] No.19823924[source]
Why does someone need to be fired? Does some blood spilled really make it better? Have some compassion.
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1. Silhouette ◴[] No.19824132[source]
Why does someone need to be fired?

That might seem rather extreme, but the fact that this situation was even possible was a consequence of a series of bad decisions over an extended period of time about the required behaviour of new versions of Firefox, combined with technical failures that betray fundamental weaknesses in the whole system design. Whoever was ultimately responsible for those failings demonstrably isn't competent to run something of this importance and should probably either implement immediate and dramatic changes to the relevant policies and technical details or consider their position. Anything less is surely going to damage trust, which is something Firefox can ill afford when it's already in danger of being reduced to a niche product rather than a mainstream browser.