294781 - annoyance: no access for non-latest update of firefox

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 294144

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Public Pages, defect)

Description

[Jaap Eldering]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050421 Firefox/1.0.3 (Debian package 1.0.3-2)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050421 Firefox/1.0.3 (Debian package 1.0.3-2)

When accessing the extensions and themes page with an "old" (1.0.3) version of
firefox, you are redirected to a page to download the newest version and _not_
given the ability to circumvent this.

I understand the reason for redirecting people to this page for security
reasons. However, I think there are good cases where one should be able to
ignore this and continue to the requested page (with a warning of security
implications).

For example when one doesn't have administrator/root privileges to install an
updated version or (my case) when one would like to wait with updating (for a
week or so) on the Linux Distribution specific package to be released.

I think this override option could at least be available for a few weeks after
the release of a new version.

I find it annoying that mozilla.org decides for me what I have to do and not
give a decent option to "shoot myself in the foot" if I explicitly decide to.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

The nature of the security bug behind the redirect means that getting any
content from a whitelisted site is a security risk.  Leaving a way for a user to
get hacked because they "think" they know what they're doing isn't really
palatable/responsible.

I'm certain that if you're not administering your own PC, the administrator
would quite prefer that you didn't go to a site that was linked with a serious
security exploit (by virtue of being whitelisted by default).

Comment 2

[alanjstr]

This is on purpose.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 294144 ***