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Firefox 8 releasedFirefox 8 releasedPosted Nov 9, 2011 10:52 UTC (Wed) by Cato (subscriber, #7643)In reply to: Firefox 8 released by ekj Parent article: Firefox 8 released
On Windows, Microsoft Office, Adobe Reader and quite a few other applications do this, and often they re-enable the addons/plugins every time the application is updated. Great that Firefox now addresses this.
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Firefox 8 released Posted Nov 9, 2011 13:02 UTC (Wed) by gidoca (subscriber, #62438) [Link]
Yes, it is. I wonder though how long it will take for application developers to figure out how to bypass this.
Firefox 8 released Posted Nov 9, 2011 13:11 UTC (Wed) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link]
Firefox is just scanning for installed addons when it starts up, I believe, so the addon would have to change Firefox's own files to fool it - probably possible but addons that do that are really crossing the line into malware and should be treated as such.
Firefox 8 released Posted Nov 9, 2011 20:43 UTC (Wed) by gidoca (subscriber, #62438) [Link]
IMHO, changing the home page and default search provider at every start of Firefox is already well beyond the line to malware.
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