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1. I just said it is good if at least subset can be trusted. It would be nice to have such feature in Chrome. 2. Sorry, could you please make your point clear

1. I just said it is good if at least subset can be trusted. It would be nice to have such feature in Chrome. 2. Sorry, could you please make your point clear (edit)? Firefox third party extensions used to access internal constructs. I think most of what is Firefox on top of Gecko is privileged extensions. 3. Yes, Firefox had addons with review process.

criley2 6y ago
2. I'm talking about the switch to WebExtensions, https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions/FAQ https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions/FAQ, which every major browser followed Chrome in doing, which was largely done for security reasons 3. Firefox does not manually review every extension, they perform some cursory virus/malware scans, same as Google. I think you're really overplaying the idea that Firefox has some manual review process ensuring only quality and safe extensions are uploaded. The best way to demonstrate this is to point out that Firefox must frequently ban released extensions -- extensions which passed these so called reviews.
- sergeykish 6y ago
  2. My understanding that nothing has changed much. Mozilla forbidden internals access to 3rd party developers, mostly driven to ease refactoring - completing the drop of non Firefox browsers started in 2008 [1]. Those who need (and were allowed) these API (like Developer tools) moved in tree. Others have to use new API which for compatibility reasons looks like Chrome. 3. Today looks like every browsers gallery dropped security. I was talking about days before Chrome and how things changed. I gave a link, there were just several blocked addons in 2008-2010. Something changed and I remember publishing process was different in Firefox and Chrome. Search gives me no complains about long review in 2010 for Chrome. I am not Mozilla funboy. I do not think that Mozilla actions is enough, Chrome had good things too - reviews without "I like it" and "Works for me". Everyone deploys automatic scan. Manual review is better than no manual review. How many extensions from Recommend list were blocked? We have to find a way to reduce pressure to buy/sell addon for use as spyware. Someone has to think twice before trying to buy Recommended addon. Or looking on a list of blocked addons. Or maybe someday "Collects data" badge. Today Mozilla is ahead, just copy and move on. [1] Mike Pinkerton on Mozilla and Camino https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttiZevbtvf0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttiZevbtvf0

criley2 6y ago

2. I'm talking about the switch to WebExtensions, https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions/FAQ https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions/FAQ, which every major browser followed Chrome in doing, which was largely done for security reasons 3. Firefox does not manually review every extension, they perform some cursory virus/malware scans, same as Google. I think you're really overplaying the idea that Firefox has some manual review process ensuring only quality and safe extensions are uploaded. The best way to demonstrate this is to point out that Firefox must frequently ban released extensions -- extensions which passed these so called reviews.

sergeykish 6y ago
2. My understanding that nothing has changed much. Mozilla forbidden internals access to 3rd party developers, mostly driven to ease refactoring - completing the drop of non Firefox browsers started in 2008 [1]. Those who need (and were allowed) these API (like Developer tools) moved in tree. Others have to use new API which for compatibility reasons looks like Chrome. 3. Today looks like every browsers gallery dropped security. I was talking about days before Chrome and how things changed. I gave a link, there were just several blocked addons in 2008-2010. Something changed and I remember publishing process was different in Firefox and Chrome. Search gives me no complains about long review in 2010 for Chrome. I am not Mozilla funboy. I do not think that Mozilla actions is enough, Chrome had good things too - reviews without "I like it" and "Works for me". Everyone deploys automatic scan. Manual review is better than no manual review. How many extensions from Recommend list were blocked? We have to find a way to reduce pressure to buy/sell addon for use as spyware. Someone has to think twice before trying to buy Recommended addon. Or looking on a list of blocked addons. Or maybe someday "Collects data" badge. Today Mozilla is ahead, just copy and move on. [1] Mike Pinkerton on Mozilla and Camino https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttiZevbtvf0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttiZevbtvf0