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Originally Posted by Total Noob
When you say Firefox as a degree of security, does this mean that the manufacturer is verifying and our vouching for the extensions, as, say, Apple does with the iPhone apps?
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What I said was Firefox has some built-in security to prevent extensions from being installed without the users permission (malicious installations).
For information on the process of creating an extension, take a look at
this link. It is not easy to "slip something by" and push it via a Firefox extension.
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Originally Posted by Total Noob
OK, I don't know what you mean by "locally," but I accept the premise. Yet, does that mean that the Firefox extensions simply can't keylog, email out files by themselves, or do other noxious things like deleting data folders?
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Technically Firefox extensions can have malicious properities, but Firefox has a rather large user base so if a Firefox extension were acting in a malicious way, people would be very vocal about it. Also, there is testing done on extensions before they are allowed to be downloaded.