Firefox to get a “walled garden” for extensions, Mozilla to be sole arbiter

Post by blueskin_ » Wed, Feb 18, 2015, 12:06 PM UTC

mcovey wrote: post #90

I'm not sure how this will bode for my own extension, which I maintain for my own private use to do whatever comes to mind, like redirecting certain pages, applying userscripts and css files, and some other customization. Also I wouldn't have tried out all the spiffy new ES6 features that Firefox supports except that I can freely use them because it can only run in Firefox anyway. One thing I did realize in learning…

Post by eklavya » Wed, Feb 18, 2015, 3:08 PM UTC

kbart wrote: post #56

eklavya wrote: post #14

I can totally see why such a thing would be required. I have always wanted to have add-ons vetted by someone I can trust. This will be really effective at least on windows where softwares randomly install shitty add ons and hijack the browser. And mozilla not likely to give in to unreasonable requests from governments because if they are not then add ons should be the least of our worries.

"I have always wanted to have add-ons vetted by someone I can trust." That's fine, but what about those, who want to homebrew their own plug-ins, experiment with something from GitHub etc? Mozilla could make signed plug-ins a default choice, but not prevent others. A good model, imho, is implemented on Android -- your (only) default choice is Google Play, but if you know what you are doing, you can install any app fr…