![]() ![]() I think we just need an "un-mozilla'd firefoxium". This is a version of Firefox designed for Developers with a suite of developer tools (and a cool dark blue theme), that can be installed by users alongside Firefox as a separate browser for web development. Yeah I know this is unlikely, and again, I'm a whining entitled idiot for demanding anything from a benevolent organization providing open-source software at no monetary cost. Activation whitelist When the addon is enabled, this will check the origin url against the whitelist to decide if headers will be modified. Force value of 'access-control-allow-origin' Self explanatory. Let third-parties provide "trusted extension registries", similar to adblock lists, with hashes of versions of extensions that have been checked by someone who is savvy enough to install debian packages, and can tell when a popular extension has changed ownership. Enabled at startup Enables this addon on startup. Let this option be disabled by GPO for corporate-controlled workstations. I do find it surprising that there is trend for shady companies to try to buy out popular Chrome extensions to slip adware and then malware into them, this has hardly been seen anywhere else (except mobile app stores maybe).Īnyway, I would love a completely different solution: something easy and obvious in settings to disable extension lock-down, with whatever scary warning is needed to let the commoner know they will probably hurt themselves badly, if they can choose what software to run on their computer. ![]() or from any tarball or git url? Even windows users can install arbitrary things! For instructions on how to install add-ons and a list of add-ons, see Browser extensions. How repugnantly negligent would mozilla be considered by news commentators, to allow so many of their users to be violated so badly by their extensions!īut I can install any debian package I want from anywhere? Or download and compile a source tarball from anywhere? Use pip to install from pypi which is a free-for-all. It's to prevent the bad publicity which results from malicious extensions affecting thousands of poor helpless users. Of course we'll be called entitled whiners for demanding prompt customer service from an open source foundation which does this completely for free.īut then why does such an organization with such an offering lock it down with a mandatory capricious review process like Apple? What profit is in it for them? It's a frustrating state of affairs that this extension review process even exists.
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