154 Firefox 115 can silently remotely disable my extension on any site (lapcatsoftware.com) 🔍 Notable posted 1 year ago by Star_Commander 1 year ago by Star_Commander +154 / -0 62 comments share 62 comments share save hide report block hide replies
This doesn't seem like a bad thing to me, although the person who wrote the article is salty about it.
Firefox blocking untrustworthy extensions from running on sites like your bank, or gmail etc., is good for the user.
Now imagine you've got a TOR extension running and Mozilla decides to silently uncloak all visitors to GAW. Similar malicious shenanigans can happen with other extensions engaged in privacy actions.
But Mozilla literally has instructions showing you how to disable the feature, and they're not hiding that it exists
Why would you use a tor extension or regular Firefox? That's why the Tor browser exists.
Tor is downstream of Firefox, which means that "features" get incorporated into it.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
Surely the Tor browser is designed to be more secure than mainstream Firefox, are you suggesting that the Tor browser is now compromised?