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>And sadly, Firefox is the only browser that does this. Not any more, I recently discovered that my firefox at work got infected with Firefox Pioneer. I didn't
by akerro 9y ago
>And sadly, Firefox is the only browser that does this.
Not any more, I recently discovered that my firefox at work got infected with Firefox Pioneer. I didn't install that, it just appeared on list of my addons, no warning or anything. I heard on Reddit about similar cases from a few months ago, people got Safe Browsing installed without their knowledge. Both are signed addons from Mozilla.
https://addons.mozilla.org/pl/firefox/addon/firefox-pioneer/ https://addons.mozilla.org/pl/firefox/addon/firefox-pioneer/
- unethical_ban 9y ago>at work Is youre IT group policy doing this?
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- akerro 9y agoSmall company, we don't have such policies, root account on my PC at work belongs to me. It's Ubuntu. your
- ryuuchin 9y agoSafe browsing is now built in to Firefox (and Chrome) so I'm not sure what you're seeing there. It hasn't shipped as an addon for quite some time.
- Vinnl 9y ago> Participation is voluntary, and you can remove yourself by disabling the add-on after you install it. So it sounds like a bug or another case of non-malice. Tried reporting it at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/?