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sid0 on March 10, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Firefox 4 RC now available

It's not a question of Firefox allowing this -- if you run any program on your computer it'll have access to your data (and hence to your Firefox profile), and one of the principles behind Firefox is extensibility.

aboodman on March 10, 2011 [–]

Chrome has taken the same approach Firefox did:

We can't prevent this from happening so we try to provide a good way for other software to do it, so they don't do it in terrible ways:

http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/external_extensions...

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