• Dojan@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “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.

    • NRoach44@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      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?

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        1 year 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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      1 year 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?).