[strbean]

They should just add a "Security Console", with black background and green text, and a simple shell interface for enabling/disabling flags that gate whether these requests are automatically denied or create a permissions popup. Anything dangerous starts disable by default.

Short of crippling capabilities to save dumb users, the best we can do is make the process scary enough that Grandma won't do it without calling her grandson first.

[troupo]

Yup, I would agree to an about:config