Can't view Romney's website from Mozilla Firefox - why is that? Hacked?

Raeka · Oct 7, 2012

Very suspicious. Under Mozilla, when you try to view MittRomney.com, after loading page, it immediately disappears and hangs up with message at bottom of task bar that states "transferring data from googleads.g.doubleclick.net..... That doesn't happen when you try to view BO's website.

Can open Romney site in IE but not Mozilla. Someone should tell Romney people about this.

Max Frost · Oct 7, 2012

Dam those tricky liberal nerd hackers....

philipkdick · Oct 7, 2012

Raeka said: ↑

Very suspicious. Under Mozilla, when you try to view MittRomney.com, after loading page, it immediately disappears and hangs up with message at bottom of task bar that states "transferring data from googleads.g.doubleclick.net..... That doesn't happen when you try to view BO's website.

Can open Romney site in IE but not Mozilla. Someone should tell Romney people about this.
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Why don't you tell them?

FreshAir · Oct 7, 2012

Raeka said: ↑

Very suspicious. Under Mozilla, when you try to view MittRomney.com, after loading page, it immediately disappears and hangs up with message at bottom of task bar that states "transferring data from googleads.g.doubleclick.net..... That doesn't happen when you try to view BO's website.

Can open Romney site in IE but not Mozilla. Someone should tell Romney people about this.
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works fine for me, then again I block Google Analytics from pages that use them like Romneys

waltky · Oct 11, 2012

Don't download 16 yet till they work the bugs out of it...

Mozilla Firefox browser upgrade taken offline due to vulnerability
11 October 2012 - The Firefox browser is used by millions worldwide

The latest version of Mozilla's Firefox browser has been taken offline after a security vulnerability was discovered. Users who had upgraded to version 16 were advised to downgrade to the previous safe release until Firefox developers released a fix. The vulnerability allowed "a malicious site to potentially determine which websites users have visited", Mozilla said. The non-profit company said that only a "limited number of users are affected". The download had been taken offline within a day of its initial release, the organisation's UK spokesman said. He added that no users had been upgraded automatically to the new version.

Automatically upgraded

In a blog post, Mozilla's director of security assurance Michael Coates said a fix was being worked on and should be expected on Thursday. "At this time we have no indication that this vulnerability is currently being exploited in the wild," he added. "Firefox 16 has been temporarily removed from the current installer page and users will automatically be upgraded to the new version as soon as it becomes available. "As a precaution, users can downgrade to version 15.0.1 by following these instructions. Alternatively, users can wait until our patches are issued and automatically applied to address the vulnerability."

Firefox was one of the three leading web browsers, with more than 450 million users worldwide, Mozilla said. Microsoft's Internet Explorer and relative newcomer Google Chrome are its key competitors. In recent months, various figures suggested Chrome had overtaken Firefox's market share, pushing the Mozilla Foundation's flagship product into third place in the browser race.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19909106
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waltky · Nov 28, 2012

Granny says, "Dat's right - Firefox throwin' inna towel on 64-bit browser...

Mozilla quietly ceases Firefox 64-bit development
November 22, 2012 - Mozilla's engineering manager has requested that developers stop work on Windows 64-bit builds of Firefox.

Mozilla engineering manager Benjamin Smedberg has asked developers to stop nightly builds for Firefox versions optimized to run on 64-bit versions of Windows. A developer thread posted on the Google Groups mozilla.dev.planning discussion board, titled "Turning off win64 builds" by Smedberg proposed the move.

Claiming that 64-bit Firefox is a "constant source of misunderstanding and frustration," the engineer wrote that the builds often crash, many plugins are not available in 64-bit versions, and hangs are more common due to a lack of coding which causes plugins to function incorrectly. In addition, Smedberg argues that this causes users to feel "second class," and crash reports between 32-bit and 64-bit versions are difficult to distinguish between for the stability team. Users can still run 32-bit Firefox on 64-bit Windows.

Although originally willing to shelve the idea for a time if it proved controversial, Smedberg later, well, shelved that idea: Thank you to everyone who participated in this thread. Given the existing information, I have decided to proceed with disabling windows 64-bit nightly and hourly builds. Please let us consider this discussion closed unless there is critical new information which needs to be presented.

The engineer then posted a thread titled "Disable windows 64 builds" on Bugzilla, asking developers to "stop building windows [sic] 64 builds and tests." These include the order to stop building Windows 64-bit nightly builds and repatriate existing Windows 64-bit nightly users onto Windows 32-bit builds using a custom update. In order to stave off argument, even though one participant suggested that 50 percent of nightly testers were using the system, perhaps as an official 64-bit version of Firefox for Windows has never been released, Smedberg said it was "not the place to argue about this decision, which has already been made."

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57553467-93/mozilla-quietly-ceases-firefox-64-bit-development/
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LasMa · Nov 28, 2012

I find it amazing that the first explanation that occurred to you was that this is somehow "suspicious." If "they" were trying to prevent access to the site, wouldn't "they" have blocked it on IE as well? Honestly, is EVERYTHING a conspiracy?

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