Firefox OS 2.5 developer preview

Posted Nov 12, 2015 15:45 UTC (Thu) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)
In reply to: Firefox OS 2.5 developer preview by gowen
Parent article: Firefox OS 2.5 developer preview

Interesting. Not limited to firefox either, then -- but I never saw it on three other machines I was using.

The other annoyance on firefox-android, which again seems to have gone away after the reinstall, is randomly downloading and trying to install .apk's (I don't think any actually got installed, only downloaded)

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Firefox OS 2.5 developer preview

Posted Nov 13, 2015 0:18 UTC (Fri) by rillian (subscriber, #11344) [Link] (2 responses)

Trying to get you to install a .apk is a pretty common malware vector. Does chrome do something to block these scripts? It would be nice to do something about them in Firefox.

Just to be clear, did it actually got the apk on the filesystem, or did it try to get you to click something like a fake dialog with a download link in it? The former indicates a successful exploit, while the later was an unsuccessful one. :)

Firefox OS 2.5 developer preview

Posted Nov 13, 2015 3:26 UTC (Fri) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link] (1 responses)

It downloaded the APK (to the "download" directory) automatically -- no prompts or fake links. It did not install it, since that would require some action on my part.

Firefox OS 2.5 developer preview

Posted Nov 13, 2015 3:54 UTC (Fri) by rillian (subscriber, #11344) [Link]

Ok, thanks for confirming. Scary.