Can you point me to the bug report, please?

Mozilla can (and arguably must) work on many things at the same time. Just like there are people working on shiny new features, there are also plenty who are fixing bugs all over the code base. That you disagree with the direction we take on new features hopefully shouldn't discourage you to help us address the bugs that cause problems for the majority of users.

The point is that developers rely on reports from users to figure out what problems are out there, and which ones are more prevalent or more damaging to the user experience. Bugs are reported all the time about all sorts of things, so the dev team needs to prioritize them somehow. Filing bugs with good steps to reproduce (which can be rare) helps a great deal in resolving problems in Firefox.

Yes, we're aware Bugzilla is a significant barrier for people who aren't used to it. I've heard talk of making big changes there, but I don't know if there are concrete plans for it. Bugzilla is a fairly integral part of the Mozilla project. Submitting crash reports and using the feedback tool are easier and better ways to report issues, so thanks for doing that.

Have you filed bug reports for those crashes? Care to share more information about the websites that cause them?

I'm serious, I can try to help get those bugs resolved.

It's a reference to this old comic of his. Hint: click on the red button.

The version of Superfish included in Firefox add-ons (at least the ones on addons.mozilla.org) don't do any cert store manipulation. All they do is inject scripts into shopping sites to show offer ads.

Read the blog post. Developers will still be able to distribute their add-ons outside of the official add-ons site. And we've always had the capability of blocking add-ons that are not on the official site.

Signing doesn't change in any way whether AdBlock Plus can be blocked or not. We get complaints about it on occasion and it's still hosted on the official add-ons site.

Yeah, same here. Lefty and have no use for those keys.

Yes, Firefox Click-to-Play has the same feature.

See my other comment below. We discovered a problem and we're trying to get it fixed now. After the block is fixed, you should be able to re-enable the blocked plugin.

Quick update: it looks like something broke in the blocklist after the block was put in place, so many users are seeing a hardblock and not a softblock. We're working on fixing this now.

I'm talking from experience - I work for Mozilla and was partly in charge of the block. Unless you're using a Firefox version older than 3.5, you should see a checkbox next to the plugin name in that window you just mentioned. Unchecking it should prevent the plugin from being disabled.

Apple released a Java update today, so everybody should be checking Software Update now, before we block on Mac.