Firefox 8 released [LWN.net]

Firefox 8 released

Posted Nov 9, 2011 13:02 UTC (Wed) by gidoca (subscriber, #62438)
In reply to: Firefox 8 released by Cato
Parent article: Firefox 8 released

Yes, it is. I wonder though how long it will take for application developers to figure out how to bypass this.

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Firefox 8 released

Posted Nov 9, 2011 13:11 UTC (Wed) by Cato (guest, #7643) [Link] (1 responses)

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.