# Firefox, you piece of shit!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 4, 2019, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-you-piece-of-shit/833455 "2019-05-04T02:49:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-you-piece-of-shit/833455/83 "2019-05-06T08:45:14Z")
So I got “Windows has detected a problem and is shutting down”\* and after the restart needed to follow **Ellis Dee** ’s instruction in #17 again. I suppose this means I should stop clicking “No, Later” when Firefox begs to update? (\* The problem that forced shut-down, I think, was pushing Play on my KMPlayer window while Firefox had gone swap-happy. I used to do perverse stress tests on Unix and essentially never panicked the kernel, but Windo$e requires careful fondling.) ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-you-piece-of-shit/833455/84 "2019-05-06T19:18:58Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > And in case it got lost in the volume of posts, to the best of my knowledge all or at least most versions of Firefox for Android obey the “xpinstall.signatures.required” switch, accessible through “about:config”. I have it set to “false” and uBlock Origin is working again, though Firefox still warns that it can’t be verified. This worked for me as well. Isn’t Mozilla in the process of preparing a new mobile browser for release next year? I’m wondering if that explains the lack of attention given to the bug in Firefox for Android. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-you-piece-of-shit/833455/85 "2019-05-10T15:17:46Z")
Mozilla has come out with an explanation: > **[Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-on Outage – Mozilla Hacks - the...](https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/05/technical-details-on-the-recent-firefox-add-on-outage/)** > > Recently, Firefox had an incident in which most add-ons stopped working. This was due to an error on our end: we let one of the certificates used to sign add-ons ... ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-you-piece-of-shit/833455/86 "2019-05-10T15:42:01Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > Mozilla has come out with an explanation: > [Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-on Outage - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog](https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/05/technical-details-on-the-recent-firefox-add-on-outage/) Good article by the CTO of Mozilla. As I said earlier, I never had a problem anyway on my desktop, but that prompted me to upgrade my Android version of Firefox on which I had disabled addon signature verification. Weird update process in my case because it had to update two separate times, but in the end, it worked. UBlock Origin is no longer despised as “not verified”. I’ve turned off “xpinstall.signature.required” and I am still not presented with fantastic investment opportunities or penis enlargement aids from the fine advertisers on the SDMB, so it’s all good. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-you-piece-of-shit/833455/87 "2019-05-10T18:25:02Z")
> [@Llama\_Llogophile](#): > > Nope. Thanks for trying, though. > > Was about to try installing an earlier version, but now I’m thinking simply fuck FF. I’d rather not go back to Chrome, and Tor is a nuisance. Any other browsers we like? Preferably without all the fuckery I’ve just experienced? Edge? LOL ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2019, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-you-piece-of-shit/833455/88 "2019-05-11T05:54:03Z")
FTR, when I said just above "I’ve turned off ‘xpinstall.signature.required’ " I obviously mean I’ve changed it from “false” back to its default value of “true”. Anyway, the point is that Android users should be able to upgrade via Google Play and fix this problem. Desktop users should have had the fix some time ago. I don’t mess with this shit on my phone, but my tablet is an Amazon HD 8 which isn’t even supposed to have Google Play, which I sideloaded, and the Firefox update worked perfectly. ---
**Author:** ![juror1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f6c823/32.png) [@juror1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/juror1)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2020, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-you-piece-of-shit/833455/89 "2020-05-17T20:40:18Z")
you are so right im hoping corona for those morons at mozilla can die ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2020, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-you-piece-of-shit/833455/90 "2020-05-17T21:50:56Z")
> [@juror1](#): > > you are so right > im hoping corona for those morons at mozilla can die For this you joined the Dope? Quaint. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Crap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.crap/32/3131_2.png) [@Dr.Crap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Crap)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2020, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-you-piece-of-shit/833455/91 "2020-05-18T13:49:26Z")
> [@juror1](#): > > you are so right > im hoping corona for those morons at mozilla can die You should definitely not be a juror. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2020, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-you-piece-of-shit/833455/92 "2020-05-18T13:55:19Z")
Both the prosecution and the defense would like to ask the court to dismiss juror one. And jurors two and six just because they’ve been sitting nearby. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2020, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-you-piece-of-shit/833455/93 "2020-05-18T17:31:16Z")
Why not jurors two and seven instead? Juror six ought to be way at the other end of the row. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2020, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-you-piece-of-shit/833455/94 "2020-05-18T17:48:34Z")
All I know is that we need a replacement for juror eight, because juror seven got hungry. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2020, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-you-piece-of-shit/833455/95 "2020-05-18T18:05:53Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > All I know is that we need a replacement for juror eight, because juror seven got hungry. Are you sure that it isn’t juror nine that needs replacing? _you know the joke_ ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2020, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-you-piece-of-shit/833455/96 "2020-05-18T18:15:46Z")
Goddamnit. Your honor, I have to recuse myself from this thread due to being a dumbass. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-you-piece-of-shit/833455.md?page=4)