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But it doesn't! As long as downloading anything is allowed, signing requirements on extensions will not prevent anything. And by experience supporting users, t
by tenfingers 11y ago
But it doesn't! As long as downloading anything is allowed, signing requirements on extensions will not prevent anything.
And by experience supporting users, this is not how bad extensions get installed on the system: they're pulled in by malware which gets installed by other means.
This is only going to irate legitimate extension developers, which already have to wait weeks for AMO to review even the most basic change. I've been distributing extensions separately precisely for this reason.
- wsha 11y agoBut ths change will prevent bad extensions pulled in by malware installed by other means.... On systems that require application signing, that should do some good (otherwise I'd expect malware to just switch from sideloading extensions to sideloading a modified version of Firefox).
- tenfingers 11y agoHow many systems do you think require application signing?