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Maybe the file you distribute on a USB stick should contain a self-contained webserver on localhost that your users can run, then install the extension through
by dmurray 7y ago
Maybe the file you distribute on a USB stick should contain a self-contained webserver on localhost that your users can run, then install the extension through Firefox?
This raises some security concerns in theory (your user now has to run an executable that is not sandboxed by the browser), but they were already trusting you enough to plug in a USB stick.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoAs you say, this wouldn't impact security any more than inserting the USB stick itself would - but having to run a HTTP server on loopback just to circumvent some security mechanism on the browser you own[0] would only say that some engineering mistakes have been made. -- [0] - Do you still own a copy of Firefox? That's probably the hidden crux of the issue.