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Because this would block it from hitting some high-value sites before they know there was a malicious update. I would imagine that once they know about it it'd
by kemayo 3y ago
Because this would block it from hitting some high-value sites before they know there was a malicious update. I would imagine that once they know about it it'd also get added to the blocked-extensions list.
- JohnFen 3y agoThe only way this approach could work is if they prevent any extensions from being in force on such websites from day 1. I can't imagine that's their plan unless they really are trying to chase away the few FF users left.
- kemayo 3y agoPer the article, quarantined sites will only allow "monitored" extensions to run. I presume that this means extensions for which they actually do verify that updates are non-malicious, which probably includes most of the popular extensions. Hard to say exactly which -- uBlock was called out as being one in the article, but there's nothing on its addon page[1] specifically flagging it as being on that list. [1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...