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Re: Evil side of Firefox extensions
From: "Mike Owen" <kyphros () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 12:07:22 -0800
On 3/1/06, azurIt <azurit () pobox sk> wrote:
the internet. The worst of all is that _anyone_, who has physical access to your computer, can install extensions into your browser _without_ your notification.
Not on a multi-user system. For example, on this Linux workstation, I can install extensions for myself, but other users can't use them because they are installed into my ~/.mozilla/firefox/blah/extensions directory. If they are installed by root, then everyone can use them because they are installed into /opt/firefox/extensions. If you give everyone full access to your workstation, you deserve the consequences. Mike
Current thread:
- Evil side of Firefox extensions azurIt (Mar 01)
- Re: Evil side of Firefox extensions Henri Cook (Mar 01)
- Re: Evil side of Firefox extensions Ben (Mar 01)
- Re: Evil side of Firefox extensions Mike Owen (Mar 01)
- Re: Evil side of Firefox extensions Dave Korn (Mar 01)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Evil side of Firefox extensions azurIt (Mar 01)
- Re: Evil side of Firefox extensions Michael Ekstrand (Mar 01)
- RE: Evil side of Firefox extensions salexander (Mar 01)