1443037 - Add pink bg to add-ons deleted from addons.mozilla.org, and add an option to disable them

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, enhancement)

Description

[David Hedlund]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:58.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/58.0
Build ID: 20180206200532

Steps to reproduce:

Installed Nano Defender (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/real-nano-defender/) a couple of months ago. The add-on has been removed but I wasn't aware of this because I was never warned. Thus I've exposed my computer to security risks associated with the add-on mentioned by Mozilla (https://github.com/NanoAdblocker/NanoCore/issues/41#issuecomment-364144608).



Expected results:

I propose tha the Add-on Manager should add a pink background to add-ons that has been removed from addons.mozilla.org. I removed Nano Defender before I submitted this issue so I don't have a screenshot of it in from the Addon Manager, instead see https://github.com/mozilla/addons-server/issues/7719

Also, I think there should be an option to automatically disable installed Firefox add-ons if Firefox later discover that they have been removed from addons.mozilla.org.

Comment 1

[Gingerbread Man]

Like bug 530635 minus any author involvement.

Comment 2

[Andy McKay]

The removal of an add-on from addons.mozilla.org can happen for many reasons, including the developer not working on it any longer.

If an add-on is malicious, it will be blocked using the blocklist protocol: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Blocklisting

Comment 3

[David Hedlund]

(In reply to Andy McKay [:andym] from comment #2)
> The removal of an add-on from addons.mozilla.org can happen for many
> reasons, including the developer not working on it any longer.
> 
> If an add-on is malicious, it will be blocked using the blocklist protocol:
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Blocklisting

Thank you.

Nano Defender was still running in my browser, isn't it Blocklisted?

Comment 4

[Andrew Swan [:aswan]]

Nano Defender is not blocklisted, no.
As Andy says, there are various reasons an addon can be removed from AMO, which makes this of limited value.
Also, users can install addons from places other than AMO, there's no clear analogue for how those would get handled here.