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Firefox 115 released (www.mozilla.org)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

“Security concerns” is such a bullshit reason. If an add on is such a security concern, why host it in the first place?

I’m disappointed Mozilla is going down this path, but not surprised.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So allowing any random, possibly compromised, possibly installed by malware, add-on to run during the Firefox account login pages (see the list of URLs in this thread) isn't a security concern to you?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

The alternative would be to give addons so little permission that the damage wouldn't matter. Effectively break the whole system, i'm fine with the ignore list.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

To me it sounds more like they plan on blocking all addons (other than some whitelist of "trusted" addons) on important pages (like the Google login page maybe?).