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Angular 1.x Banned from Firefox Addons

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Re: Angular 1.x Banned from Firefox Addons

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If there is some permutation of JavaScript statements (library or otherwise) that displays a security vulnerability for the user, isn't that the browser's fault and not the application's? And isn't library detection just a hacky substitute for an actual fix of said fault?

It's not the browser's fault if an extension has a vulnerability which gives away the capabilities the extension was given. It would be the browser's fault if the extension had a vulnerability which somehow managed to give away more permissions than the extension was given in the first place. In this specific case, Angular runs eval-like functions on HTML in the DOM. The DOM can be controlled by the webpage. If Angul…

That makes sense, thanks.

Re: Angular 1.x Banned from Firefox Addons

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

"They are not saying the Angular team is unaware of the problem, right?" Are we just going to assume the folks at Mozilla are clairvoyants? How would they know what the Angular team knows? If it's known in general that the Angular team knows about this issue already, perhaps through other means, then the statement that they haven't disclosed this to the Angular team makes no sense. The statement is, "Mozilla is choos…

Well, there's https://github.com/mozilla/addons-linter/issues/1000#issueco... ...

And now one of the researcher has commented https://github.com/mozilla/addons-linter/issues/1000#issueco...
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