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What's the difference with desk/laptop plugins? The article mentions payment and personal details, but why isn't that a consideration for desktop? Different use
by tgv 3y ago
What's the difference with desk/laptop plugins? The article mentions payment and personal details, but why isn't that a consideration for desktop? Different user base?
- creatonez 3y ago> What's the difference with desk/laptop plugins? As I understand, the codebase is quite different. It's an Android app that wraps around GeckoView, with most of the UI is custom code written in Android-specific Kotlin code. This includes a lot (but not all) of the code used to implement WebExtensions. I don't think this has any specific unique security implications other than that of introducing a lot of new code and an extensions runtime that a lot more people will suddenly be writing code for. The article mentions in the next sentence that malware extensions also plague the desktop browsers.
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- g-b-r 3y agoI think that the only serious problem is that Android kills apps all the time, so that's something that add-ons would have to handle. But in reality most add-ons worked despite that (by going through insane hoops you could still install other non-supported add-ons).