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A tool to create firefox profiles with personalized defaults.
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Disable addon blocklist (KillSwitch) #103

Closed Perflyst closed 6 years ago

Perflyst commented 6 years ago

The extension blocklist can use Mozilla to disable individual add-ons in the browser. It is practically a kill switch for Firefox add-ons and plug-ins. Updating the block list transfers detailed information about the real browser and operating system to Mozilla.

This looks for example like:

https://addons.mozilla.org/blocklist/3/%7Bec8030f7-c20a
-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384%7D/10.0.5/Firefox/20120608001639
/Linux_x86-gcc3/en-US/default/Linux%202.6.37.6-smp%20
(GTK%202.24.4)/default/default/20/20/3/
allo- commented 6 years ago

I am not sure if this is a good idea, especially not disabling the blocklist by default. Do you remember the web of trust addon spying on thousands of people? Without such a blocklist mozilla you may not notice it and keep using some malware addon which is delisted on addons.mozilla.org for a good reason.

I may still consider it as default off option with a warning next to it.

Perflyst commented 6 years ago

Okay, that's a good idea. But I also refuse it to allow Mozilla to remove something remotely from my "computer".

allo- commented 6 years ago

I think I will merge it later adding it with a similar warning as the "do not search for updates" switch has to the security group.