On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Charles Morris <[email protected]> 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... _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
