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> We see many copies of Firefox infested with rogue add-ons the user didn't ask for or isn't even aware of. GoogleUpdate? why Firefox could not remove these e
by _lce0 11y ago
> We see many copies of Firefox infested with rogue add-ons the user didn't ask for or isn't even aware of.
GoogleUpdate?
why Firefox could not remove these extension itself? I needed to remove some files from the harddisk --I doubt john.doe will be able to remove such evils
Please excuse the rant tone, these things make me feel my intimacy raped
- kbrosnan 11y agoMozilla does this from time to time for really egregious cases [1]. There is a high cost to staging the block. If the author is known there is a delay to try to get the author to ship a fix [2]. If it is unknown then the block can proceed rather quickly but the cost of changing the extension to avoid the block is usually cheap [3]. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/blocked/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/blocked/ [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=527135 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=527135 [3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=937405 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=937405 You can still use Dev Edition or Nightly with an about:config pref set.