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Firefox 115 released (www.mozilla.org)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 2 years ago (19 children)

Certain Firefox users may come across a message in the extensions panel indicating that their add-ons are not allowed on the site currently open. We have introduced a new back-end feature to only allow some extensions monitored by Mozilla to run on specific websites for various reasons, including security concerns.

What is this bullshit? Feel like this will lead to adblocks being blocked for certain websites under the guise of "security", aka: we don't have to justify shit to you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (3 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.

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