[26575] in Athena Bugs
Re: zap-mozilla-certs doesn't touch firefox
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Wed Sep 7 12:56:22 2005
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Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 12:55:28 -0400
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At 5:20 PM -0400 9/1/05, Robert A Basch wrote:
> > Freshman with no understanding of Athena are having this problem.
>
>Surely these users are not wedded to the name "zap-mozilla-certs",
>though, as long as we update our documentation accordingly. It
>looks like the relevant stock answer has indeed now been updated
>for firefox:
>
> http://web.mit.edu/answers/certs/certs_troubleshooting.html
>
This is true, however, the frosh don't necessarily know how to tell
whether or not they're running Firefox or Mozilla. And while we
have changed the stock answer, we're seeing this on an almost daily
basis here at OLC.
Ideally, we'd have zap-certificates and/or clearcerts either clobber
all passwords (with confirmation from the user) or display a menu
allowing users to pick which passwords to clobber. However, that
requires writing another utility and documenting it, which may not be
worthwhile.
Failing that, I would still like to see the following changes:
-zap-mozilla-certs should check for the existence of .mozilla/firefox
and say something like "You may need to run zap-firefox-certs too".
-zap-certificates and clearcerts should mention firefox in addition
to Netscape and Mozilla.
While it's kind of cool, I think the chrome URL is not very useful,
since it's not even a little bit intuitive if you don't understand
the internals of Firefox, and the UI is horrible when viewed in a
normal size browser window. It's also kind of lame that it's
accessible via a chrome URL and not in the Preference pane (as it is
in Mozilla and Thunderbird), but that's not anything we have control
over.
-Jon
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