3 ms·
SingleFile, right? Edit: On that note, what's up with the Firefox Add-Ons? Currently, they are all setup so that to do something interesting, they need all t
by actionfromafar 3y ago
SingleFile, right?
Edit:
On that note, what's up with the Firefox Add-Ons?
Currently, they are all setup so that to do something interesting, they need all the permissions.
Which leads to a natural market being created, of bad actors go shopping for Add-Ons they can take over.
Can something be done about this? For instance for this "SingleFile" addon. It needs to access the rendered document in the DOM to be able to introspect and save it all to a file.
But why does it need access to everything? Can't it have just permissions:
- "snapshot DOM once"
- "write to a single file"
- pbronez 3y agoAgree. There are many extensions that I want to use on arbitrary websites, but rarely. This could be handled by the browser locking the extension out from everything, until the moment I manually invoke it, at which point it’s allowed access to the page I’m currently looking at. Now, maybe that’s how it already works, but I have no confidence in it.
- gildas 3y agoAuthor here, I wished SingleFile would use less permissions, but it's unforntunately not possible from a technical point of view. Anyway, if you run some code I've written but are suspicious, you have to trust me or review the code which is open-source.
- darkteflon 3y agoSingleFile is amazing - one of my most-used extensions on both desktop and mobile by far. It’s elegant, unobtrusive and it just works. Thanks for making!
- gildas 3y agoThank you for trusting me and for your kind words ;)
- vertis 3y agoI use SingleFile ALL the time. Thank you so much for it. I Perma-web anything that I find interesting, after discovering by going back in my notes that half the bookmarks I'd added no longer existed 5 years later. I don't think I could do half as good a job if it wasn't for your extension. I owe you a coffee/beer -- actually i just found your donation page, but still a drink IRL if we ever run into each other at a conference/etc.
- gildas 3y agoThank you very much for your support! I've just read your post about SingleFile and Obsidian [1]. I'm glad to see that you've managed to integrate SingleFile perfectly into your workflow :) [1] https://vertis.io/2024/01/26/how-singlefile-transformed-my-obsidian-workflow/ https://vertis.io/2024/01/26/how-singlefile-transformed-my-o...
- vertis 3y agoIt's the least I could do :)
- actionfromafar 3y agoI have no qualms about you or SingleFile. I used it today, it's great! I just think market pressure created by the permissions systems is unfortunate, in aggregate. With x thousands of add-ons, bad stuff has happened, and is going to happen. Any improvement to the permissions which could mitigate that at least somewhat, would be nice.
- livrem 3y agoSingleFile, yes. Thanks. Did not see it within the edit-window. I agree about permissions. In this case it looks like it needs a bit more, since it has some options like enabling auto-save after page-load for tabs for instance. Not a feature I have used, but I am sure it can be useful for semi-manually scraping sites.