My point of view as a long-time Firefox user that cares about privacy but also knows we live in an imperfect world: It obviously sucks that this happened but I think they handled it very well.
The bug was fixed so quickly that I wouldn't even have realized it had happened if it hadn't been for the thread here on HN. My extensions hadn't even been disabled yet by the time the patch came out. And pushing out the hotfix through studies followed by a new version probably ensured that a large fraction of the "average joe" userbase didn't even realize there was a problem.
So obviously there are some improvements to make for the future but I think some of the criticism over the last few days has been a bit harsh. Firefox is still my preferred browser by far.
The bug was fixed so quickly that I wouldn't even have realized it had happened if it hadn't been for the thread here on HN. My extensions hadn't even been disabled yet by the time the patch came out. And pushing out the hotfix through studies followed by a new version probably ensured that a large fraction of the "average joe" userbase didn't even realize there was a problem.
So obviously there are some improvements to make for the future but I think some of the criticism over the last few days has been a bit harsh. Firefox is still my preferred browser by far.