Seeing this article, and how much webextensions manage to mess up the browser, I'm wondering how bad this experiment would've been with the legacy XUL extensions. Maybe they had a point in getting rid of them...
Installing every* Firefox extension
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#42In this blog post: Let's Game It Out[1] meets web browsing.
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#43Sad that no real pages can load successfully, but I thoroughly enjoyed the writing. > We turned on crash reporting on the way. I haven't burst out laughing like this in a while! You'll probably make for some horror stories to a poor Mozilla team.
Firefox crash reports are public though unfortunately I was unable to find their crashes: https://crash-stats.mozilla.org/ EDIT: if they still have the profile they can actually find the crash ID for their crash report: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-cr...
All those extensions probably crashed the crash reporter
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
But the software already has multiple database systems built in. There's not exactly overhead to use what plumbing is already there, instead of writing to disk.
Firefox is absolutely abysmal at not corrupting its JSON stores, too. I've had it crash and lose tabs so many times. Perhaps moving back to SQLite wouldn't be a bad idea. I had to recover somebody's bookmarks for them recently after it decided to destroy the main copy.
> I had to recover somebody's bookmarks for them recently after it decided to destroy the main copy.
@Chaosvex curious how you did that.
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#45"In terms of implementation, the most interesting one is “Іron Wаllеt” (the I, a, and e are Cyrillic). Three seconds after install, it fetches the phishing page’s URL from the first record of a NocoDB spreadsheet and opens it [...] The API key had write access, so I wiped the spreadsheet."
Did you just admit to a CFAA violation?
Won't someone think of the poor phishers!
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#46This obviously showcases that Firefox needs to work on their support for having all browser extensions at once. Users want and need this.
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#47Absolutely unhinged and very entertaining. Thanks for sharing!
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#48Reminds me of the NPM package that depended es on all other NPM packages https://uncenter.dev/posts/npm-install-everything/
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#49This article is interesting but hard to read in certain places because it contains distracting information.
Better to organize it into main findings and side stories.
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#50I'm laughing so hard at the video, I imagine this is what browsing the web is like for the elderly that barely know how to use a computer. Can someone do this in Chrome?
That will be one hell of a bug report.