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evilpie

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About evilpie

Mozilla Software Engineer.

https://hachyderm.io/@evilpie

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    Comment #47924513

    The HTML Sanitizer API has a subset of SVG that is allowed by the default configuration. It won't help you with sanitizing CSS at all however, style is simply not allowed by defaul…

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    Comment #47899472

    > The Firefox team is experimenting with ways to improve the built-in Enhanced Tracking Protection feature in Firefox. This is one of the libraries we're going to experiment with. …

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    Comment #47260502

    Yes. It's in about:keyboard.

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    Comment #47139847

    You aren't reading it right. new Sanitizer({}) This Sanitizer will allow everything by default, but setHTML will still block elements/attributes that can lead to XSS. You might wan…

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    Comment #47137824

    Using an allowlist based Sanitizer you are definitely less likely to shoot yourself in the foot, but as long as you use setHTML you can't introduce XSS at least.

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    Comment #47134615

    We made sure to exclude WebExtensions code from web pages's Trusted Types restrictions enforcement. (Bugs can happen of course)

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    Comment #45675325

    If you want to use an XSS-unsafe Sanitizer you have to use setHTMLUnsafe.

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    Comment #45674985

    We enabled this by default in Firefox Nightly (only) this week.

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    Comment #43842284

    Make sure you have Firefox 138! From the release notes: > You can also now reposition a tab group on the tab bar by dragging it.

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    Comment #43630991

    Removing security headers like Content-Security-Policy is forbidden by the addons.mozilla.org policy. https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/publish/add-on-p...

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    Comment #43630984

    While this is definitely annoying, most of the time this can be worked around by the extension without workarounds that themself weaken security. For example I helped uBlock Origin…

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    Comment #41644817

    If it's disabled (greyed-out), then you already have telemetry disabled.

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    Comment #40549602

    Firefox also has the about:config preference permissions.default.image: 2, which will block most images.

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    Comment #39338896

    The profile actually shows the freeze is not caused by normal JS garbage collection, but by cycle collection. So probably something related to DOM nodes.

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    Comment #38865964

    See also https://ooooooooo.ooo/ . "9o3o is an official (but experimental) online version of the Flashpoint Archive."

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    Comment #38681673

    https://www.pcgameshardware.de/Internet-Thema-34041/News/AVM... Also one of the headings was mistranslated horribly. In linked the article: "AVM threatens to ban the sale of Fritzb…

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    Comment #38445400

    See also Dario Casali's Half Life 25yr anniversary playthrough: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLk5gaNp4x_AVIJviyHueH...

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    Comment #37086786

    Igalia is regularly contracted to work on new Firefox features, so this is already happening.

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    Comment #36587587

    [deleted because I don't to be accused for ragebaiting]

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    Comment #36150223

    As far as I can tell from my own recommended extensions is that every update needs to be approved/reviewed before it's made generally available.