Oscar_Cunningham comments on Rationality Quotes: July 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: sfb 20 July 2010 03:11:57PM 2 points [-]

Firefox's approach

That doesn't seem a lot better - I know what it wants me to do with an unsigned plugin prompt - review the site, verify the download hash, review the plugin source code, look for reviews of the plugin, author, site...

What I actually do is wait 5 seconds, then click "yes do it" as soon as possible. So the utility is ... well intentioned, but still ineffective.

Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 20 July 2010 08:15:41PM *  1 point [-]

The about:config option "security.dialog_enable_delay" allows one to reduce the delay to 0.