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lopmotr on Nov 1, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Firefox to Discontinue Sideloaded Extensions

There's no way Firefox can protect itself from a 3rd party that can write to the disk. It's only making it more difficult. Viruses will still manage OK.

GetOutOfBed on Nov 1, 2019 [–]

I think his point was that the following statement doesn't make much sense:

> This is most definitely a Good Thing, as it means for example no malicious extensions can be silently installed by malware etc.

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