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I wish they would make it so that addons and plugins can only be installed inside Firefox (via addons.mozilla.org, File > Open or exceptions for trusted sites.)

I wish they would make it so that addons and plugins can only be installed inside Firefox (via addons.mozilla.org, File > Open or exceptions for trusted sites.) I have seven plugins listed and I only installed two of them. 2007 Microsoft Office system - Installed with Office 2007 Google Update - Installed with Google Chrome (??) Java Deployment Toolkit - Installed with Java (on Firefox blocklist) Java Platform - Installed with Java Picasa - Installed with Google Picassa Shockwave Flash - I installed this Silverlight - I installed this In the extension category only two are there that I didn't installed FiddlerHook - Installed with Fiddler (not removed after uninstalling Fiddler, uninstall button greyed out in Firefox) Java Console - Installed with Java

ciupicri 16y ago
That wouldn't be good for Linux distributions which have their own package management system. For example Fedora offers the following packages: mozilla-adblockplus, mozilla-vlc, mozilla-noscript etc.
- theBobMcCormick 16y ago
  IMHO, the Linux distros are doing it wrong. Just because you have a package management system, doesn't mean you have to use it for everything. I think hackers have seen the absolutely shitpile that most distro's make when they try to override things like CPAN, Ruby Gems, etc. They really need to go hands off on some of those things and let the secondary package manager do it's job Just because you've got a hammer, doesn't mean every problem is a nail.
getsat 16y ago
Definitely. As a hacktivist, I'm sure you're familiar with the dangers of browser plugins. I find that browsers allow this behaviour to be extremely unnerving.