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by leoh 390 days ago
They're just trying to offer an easy way to try things out and unsafe code from Firefox would be insanely harmful for their brand. Of course, if you take a moment to merely download the bash script and inspect it. It's truly not dissimilar from downloading a repository from GitHub and building it. In general, certainly, yes, you don't want to run arbitrary programs.