On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 11:33:24PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 22.11.2017 um 22:47 schrieb Richard Z: > >I see a security disaster comming if addons ask users to install companion > >apps. Most of them may be legit but I am not keen to try out. Firefox byebye > > as you can see it don't really work and the opposite is true with FF57 so > please stop spread uneducated FUD with "Firefox byebye" backed by nothing > when the new addon-api restricts addons much more in what they can do as > before which is the root cause of the topics problem Read again. The addon asked him to install a "companion app" *because* of the restricted addon-api. That is an untrusted binary downloaded somewhere, never reviewed by anyone from mozilla with *full* access to your machine. How this is an improvement over the previous addon-api only mozilla knows. Richard -- Name and OpenPGP keys available from pgp key servers _______________________________________________ kde mailing list -- kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kde-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
