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eMudhra will withdraw from issuing public TLS certificates, keeping revocation services running until every issued certificate has expired or been replaced. Customers get replacements free through partners.
In the thread, a commenter reports that an up-to-date iPhone was still trusting the compromised CAs nearly five days after the report.
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Eight eMudhra intermediate CA certificates, valid since April 2025, had keys that could be computed from the certificates themselves. A commenter pulled out the scalars: 4, 56, 66, 115, 155, 156, 230, 237.
Firefox shipped a fix in hours via OneCRL; a Mozilla engineer in the thread says everything outside the big browsers is still exposed.
Firefox for iOS can now block many third-party ads, ad trackers, pop-ups, and overlays before they load, using a filter list based on EasyList.
The limits matter: search-result ads and Firefox's own sponsored content remain outside the feature, and users must opt in.
Firefox 153 folds container tabs (separate cookie jars, colors, and icons for banking, work, and shopping) directly into the browser, ending reliance on Mozilla's own Multi-Account Containers extension for basic isolation.
The pushback was immediate: a reader traced the same interface back to a 2017 Mozilla documentation snapshot and a 2023 support page, arguing the 'preview' label hides that containers have quietly existed for years.
His demos, built with Claude, include a markdown notes app and a node-based video compositor, all editing real local files in-page. The trick is window.showDirectoryPicker(), which lets the user's own cloud-synced folder become the sync layer. The catch the post skips: all three editors of the draft spec are Google engineers, and Jake Archibald showed up to debunk the demo's scariest fear.
Ship DRM, AI, or push notifications, he argues, and your survey numbers look great — because the dissatisfied already left, so only the satisfied remain to be counted. The feedback that's left is survivorship bias wearing a dashboard.
The thread split on the diagnosis. One reader refused to pin it on leadership: would the best browser on earth have changed Firefox's fate when it survives on Google's money? Others called that money the whole strategy.
