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by evilpie 4136 days ago
As one of the biggest Firefox contributors, I am actually annoyed by how bad this decision is from a technical point of view as well.

We have already seen malware that just replaces the Chrome binary to avoid add-on checks, but somehow this isn't seen as a big problem?

> That is possible, but I don’t expect the majority of malware developers to go through such trouble. [1]

I can totally understand where this idea is coming from, but trying to somehow secure Firefox on a system that is already busted is futile.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/02/10/extension-signing...