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Mozilla now signs Firefox downloads

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A little bird recently told me some good news -- Mozilla Firefox is now digitally signed by "Mozilla Foundation." This means that Windows customers who want to download the self-installing executable with Internet Explorer can do so and be sure that what they downloaded was indeed Firefox and not some corrupt (or tampered with) download:

signed download image

The cert was apparently issued just a couple of days after someone blogged about this issue... but maybe that's just a co-incidence ;-)

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  • Anonymous
    March 26, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    March 26, 2005
    Also, so that nobody thinks I was trying to criticize Mozilla, Firefox, FOSS, or whatever: that wasn't my intention. I wasn't trying to troll. Because I work on code signing I was interested to see what was signed (using the stuff I work on) and how.
    Additionally, I should point out that IMO Windows does a really bad job of letting the average user know which files they can trust, which ones they can't, and why. I'm not trying to throw stones at anyone from my own glass house.
  • Anonymous
    March 27, 2005
    Great work mr detective! The issue was known since 2004! In december 2004 someone from blogs.msdn was telling that he can't trust FF, because it's not signed. Others reported it long before that too.
    BTW: This page has broken layout (comment writing block). How many days will it take you to correct this issue? And will it be coincidence, as I told you about it?
  • Anonymous
    March 27, 2005
    Yet another reason to use it? :) duck
  • Anonymous
    March 27, 2005
    Maybe you should have another blog targetting opera next time?
  • Anonymous
    March 28, 2005
    Hmmm, godaddy.com offer free certificates to open source projects.

    https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/ssl/ssl_opensource.asp

    Also
    http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/007798.html
    is an interesting idea about simplifying some signed download processes. Once again Mozilla innovates with browser UI ideas!
  • Anonymous
    March 29, 2005
    hey, constructive criticism always helps. Enough blog posts like yours and Firefox will be even better than it is.
  • Anonymous
    April 04, 2005
    hmm seeing so much "bashing post" of firefox, and IE still doesn't even get better, I guess IE developers like to critize a lot, wonder when they going to support fully CSS and webstandards.
  • Anonymous
    April 07, 2005
    If you can't beat it, join it. ;)
  • Anonymous
    April 09, 2005
    i beat my meat :/
  • Anonymous
    April 21, 2005
    Hey Pete! check out iris' artwork from 98! cool eh? Hi Iris!
    http://www.duke.edu/web/museo/spring98/iris.html
  • Anonymous
    May 25, 2005
    Why aren't you posting anything any more?
  • Anonymous
    July 12, 2005
    Honestly dude, you are one of the most idiotic people I know. You obviously don't know S*** about computers, and you only argued the bad points of firefox. If you went to argue the bad points of Ie, well lets just say i dont think anybody would have enough time to read the article...I also see they paid you to do this. S*** if somebody paid me I could argue the bad points of anything!