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Actually, it's their effort to prevent AMO from ending up as malware riddled as the Chrome Store. Addons are running in the chrome context and are thus pretty
by kpcyrd 11y ago
Actually, it's their effort to prevent AMO from ending up as malware riddled as the Chrome Store.
Addons are running in the chrome context and are thus pretty powerful. It's trival to compromise the whole computer if they aren't reviewed.
- piyush_soni 11y agoI wouldn't think Chrome Web store is full of Malware. Yes, it's not free of those, but the bad ones are quickly removed by both Chrome's policing, and users' flagging. That's how Mozilla should go forward. The problem with manual reviewing is, it depends on the 'volunteers' time availability, and a stupid Review system which is NOT FCFS. You are told you are 37th out of 150 in the queue, but you see that you either remain at that position while others are being approved, your queue position goes both up and down, and some times your add-on is instantly approved even when you are 100th in the queue. All this takes many days even if your users are waiting for a critical fix. This is the biggest turn off in uploading add-ons for Firefox.