Peaches Posted April 5, 2011 Report Share Posted April 5, 2011 Mozilla to Block Offline Add-on Installation in Upcoming Firefox Version In an attempt to resolve performance issues Mozilla plans to block the offline installation of add-ons, a measure that will also impact security in a good way.Mozilla intends to make a series of add-on-related changes that involve the introduction of automatic performance testing, slow performance warnings, and most importantly, from a security perspective, mandatory opt-in installation.This means that no third-party program will be able to install extensions, toolbars or plug-ins by placing files directly in the Firefox directory. This is actually an attack vector that has been discussed and criticized before by the security community.Back in December 2008, security researchers from Bit Defender found a trojan that worked as a Firefox extension and stole online banking credentials. The trojan was being installed by other infections and was registering itself as "Greasemonkey," a legit and relatively popular extension. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Mozilla-to-Block-Offline-Add-on-Installation-in-Upcoming-Firefox-Version-192843.shtml Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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