Open Bug 1647345 Opened 4 years ago Updated 4 years ago

Allow AV to trigger a Firefox Refresh

Categories

(Firefox :: Migration, enhancement, P3)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Migration
Type:
enhancement

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People

(Reporter: tjr, Unassigned)

References

Details

Chrome has a feature where AV can trigger a browser refresh if they e.g. detect a malicious extension. The documentation is here. I believe at least Windows Defender supports this.

I know we have a 'Refresh Firefox' workflow somewhere, so it seems like it may not be too too much work to hook this up to it...

Component: Other → Migration
OS: Unspecified → All
Product: External Software Affecting Firefox → Firefox
Hardware: Unspecified → All
Version: unspecified → Trunk
See Also: → 1633505
  1. We have a mechanism that would allow external programs to do this without user interaction but I think we should require user interaction, like Chrome
  2. The current Firefox Refresh seems to cause more data loss than how Chrome describes their solution. Firefox Refresh uses an allow list of files whereas this Chrome feature seems to only cleanup/reset specific data. Maybe this should be a separate feature or maybe we already have code like this related to search hijacking cleanup.
  3. If we want to require user interaction we can probably piggyback on the existing 2 notification bars that ask for Firefox Refresh. https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/46e3b1ce2cc120a188f6940b5c6eab6b24530e4f/browser/components/BrowserGlue.jsm#1546-1607
Severity: -- → N/A
Type: defect → enhancement
Priority: -- → P3
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