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If you have disk access, why even bother with a malicious plugin that has to follow all the plugin rules? You could just modify the executable itself and do wha
by morpheuskafka 8y ago
If you have disk access, why even bother with a malicious plugin that has to follow all the plugin rules? You could just modify the executable itself and do whatever you wanted with no use visibility.
- mbrubeck 8y agoIt's not impossible, but it's much harder to do this in a way that reliably persists through Firefox changes and updates. In comparison, changes to the prefs file are trivially persistent regardless of when and how Firefox is updated.