Monday, June 16, 2008

When your Firefox plug-in illegally operates on you

I got this error when going to Channel 9's website:



Ok, so first of all what's with the extra whitespace where the error message should be? Is this error important enough that we need to make the message box extra tall or did some intern just build the string incorrectly?

Second of all, if I am strongly advised to restart Firefox, why don't you just force me to? What will happen if I continue? Will my computer explode? This message sounds scary but I'm given no details at all about what happened or what might happen if I continue.

Thirdly, speaking about details, what the heck is the illegal operation that my plug-in performed? I'm a programmer and I have a hard time figuring out what that could have been let alone if I was someone a little less technical like my wife or mom. Sure your code may do bad things, but I don't know what this plug-in could have done that would have been bad enough to alert me about it.

By the way, I ignored it and then went to another webpage and then Firefox crashed. I guess that's what I get for ignoring a "strongly advised" error message. And apparently, it "illegally operated" bad enough to make my next new instance of Firefox fail to load any plug-ins at all. Talk about an illegal operation...

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