Comments on: Notifying users about third-party add-ons

By: Oxymoronical » Blog Archive » Progress on notifying users about third-party add-ons

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:28:46 +0000

[...] add-ons that third-party installers have added to Firefox. You can read more about it in last weeks blog post or on the project [...]

By: Jigar shah

Jigar shah — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 06:06:04 +0000

Yes..I am troubled with one extension mugshot that comes default with Fedora. Its painful.

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Oh, now I remember a reason why I hate M… « Nightgunner5 is a Geek — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:15:21 +0000

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By: Michael Kaply

Michael Kaply — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:44:49 +0000

Actually Brand Thunder has started shipping some extensions as EXEs.

It allows distribution on sites that don’t accept XPIs.

For example:

http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Indianapolis-Colts-Boom-Download-135626.html

Basically they are investigating distribution mechanisms other than AMO.

By: Mossop

Mossop — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:34:07 +0000

Fundamentally right now Firefox can’t really tell whether an external extension was installed as part of another application or standalone, so the UI we add here will apply to both. I have to be honest though, I’ve not come across standalone extensions shipped as an exe, can you name some examples?

Really I don’t want to think of this new UI as a warning. The vast majority of cases where system extensions appear are legitimate, we’re just allowing users to control whether they ever run without significantly delaying startup.

By: Michael Kaply

Michael Kaply — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:09:17 +0000

What if an extension is actually distributed standalone as an EXE and installed that way?

Will Firefox still warn about it?

Even though it was designed to be installed this way?