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> Whether or not everyone did it in order to enhance DRM, it is still the case that that is one of the end results. Virtually nobody who works in DRM would ag
by pcwalton 9y ago
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Whether or not everyone did it in order to enhance DRM, it is still the case that that is one of the end results.
Virtually nobody who works in DRM would agree that the add-ons model has anything to do with the effectiveness of DRM. If you have access to the user account running Firefox, running arbitrary unsigned native code in the Firefox process is trivial.
> Another is that Firefox no longer supports general purpose computing.
XUL add-ons were JavaScript. Web Extensions are JavaScript. You can write whatever Web Extension you want for whatever purpose you want.
- brudgers 9y agoA web extension cannot read and write ordinary files on the file system. It cannot assign commands to the key combination Ctl-Shift-Q. It cannot redefine javascript objects created by the web page. These are not defaults that can be toggled by the user. They are hard coded into the design.