> I wonder how closely Mozilla analyzes the addons they offer for download? Are they as trustworthy as Firefox itself? This has been a contentious discussion o

> I wonder how closely Mozilla analyzes the addons they offer for download? Are they as trustworthy as Firefox itself? This has been a contentious discussion of late. Mozilla does manual (human) code review add-ons after they're submitted to AMO and made available for install, but they don't tell you which add-ons have been reviewed by a person and which haven't. It's apparently too costly and slow a process to review every submission, so much of this is automated, for better or worse. Sophisticated users can download them and look at the code, as .xpi files are really just zip archives, but everyone else is on their own.