Marking addons as safe for certain websites
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(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, enhancement)
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(Reporter: aros, Unassigned)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:77.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/77.0
Steps to reproduce:
I've already raised the issue that add-ons are not properly vetoed any longer and it's not impossible to publish an add-on which will steal user data, mine cryptocurrencies, show ads non-stop and do many other nefarious things. Now all these things aren't that important but passwords/accounts/money stealing is absolutely is. Here's a new idea I've come up with.
Let's have two new lists in Firefox:
- List N1 has websites which the user has designated as mission-critical: these could be banking websites, email services, exchanges, etc. - everything which is too important to lose your data from/access to.
- Then the user will have an option to designate certain add-ons as "Safe" to run which means only these add-ons will run for the websites in list N1. So, this list N2 will contain "Safe" add-ons which are allowed to run for websites in list N1.
This is somewhat convoluted when the option to run Firefox without add-ons at all still exists but it's not necessarily the best option since the user might still want to run their "Safe" add-ons at all times.
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Comment 1•5 years ago
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Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.
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Comment 2•5 years ago
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We do have plans to implement host permissions UI.
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