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> 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
by 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.