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From: R0b0t1 <r030t1@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What do you think about Firefox 57?
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2017 00:00:19
Message-Id: CAAD4mYgp_11F+JDdB-Jmem4ASm6Ro6rgBr7ex2TPyjqR=9N2DA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] What do you think about Firefox 57? by konsolebox
1 On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 7:38 AM, konsolebox <konsolebox@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 8:26 PM, Danny YUE <sheepduke@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >> Afterwards I found that it seems Firefox 57 will use a new ecosystem for
4 >> extensions and be more strict for plugin developers.
5 >>
6 >> So Firefox gurus, what do you think about it?
7 >
8 > Not a guru, but if it's something that enhances add-on security
9 > without sacrificing flexibility, I don't mind.
10 >
11
12 I've seen some questionable choices w.r.t. security being made. Things
13 aren't being made less secure, but choices made in the interest of
14 security don't really seem to relate to it. The last big extension
15 update was like that. There was some easy way to get around the
16 sandbox that Mozilla made for Firefox.
17
18 This update will break my favorite extension, Vimperator. I am already
19 looking at replacements for Firefox due to this. So far I have found
20 qutebrowser which isn't really as featureful.
21
22 R0b0t1.