I consider these to be mental acrobatics to find a position to justify wresting away any control from the user. It is not mozilla's responsibility to attempt to

I consider these to be mental acrobatics to find a position to justify wresting away any control from the user. It is not mozilla's responsibility to attempt to protect the user from the very slim line of "effectively malicious but still somehow principled" malware, picking a near-by line of verifying once would be far less problematic. If the user does not want that crap on their machine they should remove the origin instead. We would not have the current situation if mozilla did not assume responsibility and control for problems outside their domain. At least they could have made this opt-in by asking the user if they want an extra locked down version of firefox that might disable their addons if they are deemed malicious. Then the user could have made an informed choice.