496680 - RFE: Alert users on newly installed extensions upon startup

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Risar]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042708 Fedora/3.0.10-1.fc9 Firefox/3.0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042708 Fedora/3.0.10-1.fc9 Firefox/3.0.10

This is a feature request.

The user in the thread made a valid point, and it seems like a good idea. If a new extension is installed (system or user level) then ideally on startup firefox (or any mozilla product) should alert the user and give them the option to ignore and/or remove the add-on/extension. 

There could be some debate about weather this is a usability concern as the prompt could concern or confuse users, however this could also be a menu or about::settings value that those of us attempting to be more security concious or generally aware could enable.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use microsoft !

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Firefox is already doing that.
see also https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476430#c6

Comment 2

[Risar]

Looks to me like they are discussing it, which means this request should be marked as a dupe.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

nope
Firefox is already doing that what you want, they are only discussing it how to improve it