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When developing my first Chrome Extension, it didn't take me long until i got the thought of "keylogging might be possible". So i tried it, and sure - i was ev
by tmikaeld 13y ago
When developing my first Chrome Extension, it didn't take me long until i got the thought of "keylogging might be possible".
So i tried it, and sure - i was even able to replace password logins in the DOM with fake ones.
Firefox extensions does the same thing really, so now i only use a few "safe" extensions.
I'm surprised that this hasen't gotten more attention.
- daveid 13y agoNow I have to wonder... What permissions do Firefox extensions have? How do I check or verify these things?
- anonymfus 13y agoFirefox extensions have the same permissions as browser itself.
- tracker1 13y agoI'm pretty judicious when trying extensions... but really only use a handful of them.
- spyder 13y agoAt least Firefox extensions on Mozilla's add-ons site gets more thoroughly reviewed on every update. The add-ons installed from outside of the add-ons site can be very dangerous, but Mozilla tries to block these too: List of blocked add-ons with reasons: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/blocked/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/blocked/