Re: OT: Firefox question / poll

[coderman <coderman () gmail com>]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Charles Morris <cmorris () cs odu edu> wrote:
> I'm curious what everyone's opinion is on the following question...
> esp. to any FF dev people on list:
>
> Do you think that the Firefox "warning: unresponsive script" is meant
> as a security feature or a usability feature?

anyone who said "security feature" is an idiot and/or not thinking clearly.
your security is harmed by malicious script in milliseconds.
this does nothing to protect you from anything.*

it is purely a usability feature in response to shitty developers
writing shitty webapps leading to excessively long script execution
(which can thus be terminated if desired once this warning presents)


* someone may say "availability is a security requirement!". true, but
then a modem link to web 2.0 is a DoS, and there's simply no point
going down that road...

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