At four o'clock in the morning Beijing time today, Firefox, one of the world's four largest browsers, suddenly became unable to connect to the Internet, and hundreds of millions of its users were affected.
The Firefox browser is a product of the Mozilla Foundation in California, USA, and has been around for more than a decade. Most of the Mozilla Foundation's employees are also Americans, and in 2015, Firefox stopped trusting digital certificates from the China Internet Information Center. In 2020, the plug-in built into the Firefox China version has also been exposed to hijack users to the rebate website.
Although Firefox explained that this time it was caused by a bug in updating the server, this was not satisfactory, and this sudden disconnection was inevitably reminiscent.
Now most browsers are based on Chromium and other technologies in the United States, so the code in them must not be fully mastered, and the security risks are unknown. Will we experience such problems in the future?
Breaking the monopoly of technology and realizing technological autonomy has reached the point of imperative.
![The Great Wall Broadband network has been disconnected for nearly a month, neither restoring the network supply nor refunding the fee?[fig]](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACwAAAAAAQABAAACAkQBADs=)