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I’ve worked in academia as a software engineer for over thirty years, from small community colleges to major research universities, and I’ve worked in corporate. I stand by my comments.
Firefox 3.0.18 has five critical security vulnerabilities, and one high level security vulnerability, that were fixed in 3.0.19 (30 March 2010)[1], plus all of the vulnerabilities, of various levels, that have been addressed since then that were already present in 3.0.18. As a professional web developer, I don’t want to do something that would encourage people to run browsers with known security vulnerabilities when there are more secure versions of the same product available. I don’t want to be a professional that encourages irresponsible behavior. If I were a physician, what kind of physician would I be if I encouraged drinking and driving?
[1] Security Advisories for Firefox 3.0. (n.d.). Retrieved January 19, 2013, from https://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox30.html
Sorry, Alex, I just saw your reply. I’m also sorry that my problem description for this was really, really bad— as a developer myself I don’t know what I was thinking. I don’t remember enough details from the time, and haven’t tried the plugin recently. I usually turn off other plugins before reporting something like this, but, of course, it might have been something else. I’m going to mark this as resolved, since it’s unfair to keep it open given the circumstances. Cheers.