Firefox 3.6 blocks sneaky addons

Computerworld is reporting that the forthcoming version of Firefox 3.6 will include a feature which disables the ability for other applications to "sneakily" install add-ons without the users knowledge. One can assume this is in response to Microsoft's sneaky move which installed an add-on without notifying users at all - and exposed users to malware.  In an email to Computerworld, Johnathan Nightingale, manager of the Firefox front-end development team said  "We're doing this for stability and user control, Dropping raw components in this way was never an officially supported way of doing things, which means it lacks things like a way to specify compatibility.  Read full story...


 


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