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Re: Installing every* Firefox extension

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Post by xg15 » Sat, Apr 11, 2026, 2:56 PM UTC

gathered wrote: post #2

I'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?

There was also a nice dramatic arc to it, with the browser first (seemingly) behaving normally, then starting with a few scattered theme switches, then going increasingly off the rails as more and more extensions start up.

Also the metal pipe.

Re: Installing every* Firefox extension

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Post by abustamam » Sat, Apr 11, 2026, 3:41 PM UTC

walrus01 wrote: post #19

gathered wrote: post #2

I'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?

If you turn loose a completely untrained person to click yes/accept/download/OK/I agree on every type of user interface popup, particularly a person who has no ability to distinguish between a user interface question presented by the operating system itself and something inside of a browser window, that's what you'll get...

I was recently doing some maintenance on my mom's iPhone SE and was quite shocked at how many random apps she had installed. Random forums, shopping apps, etc. Bespoke mobile app wrappers for simple web apps may be the new 'toolbar' or 'browser extension'

Re: Installing every* Firefox extension

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Post by prmoustache » Sat, Apr 11, 2026, 5:28 PM UTC

thephyber wrote: post #35

proactivesvcs wrote: post #12

"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?

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Re: Installing every* Firefox extension

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Post by lucasmullens » Sat, Apr 11, 2026, 5:49 PM UTC

stratos123 wrote: post #10

gathered wrote: post #2

I'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?

My favorite part was the metal pipe sound effect. Wish the author investigated which extension does that.

For some reason that metal pipe sound was a meme a few years ago, a picture of a pipe and that sound has 5 million views on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDLmYZ5HqgM

Re: Installing every* Firefox extension

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Post by butterlesstoast » Sat, Apr 11, 2026, 6:57 PM UTC

I got so much joy out of seeing it take 32 gigs of RAM. Bravo.

Re: Installing every* Firefox extension

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Post by benlimanto » Sat, Apr 11, 2026, 7:32 PM UTC

ArneVogel wrote: post #34

I won the "Middle Finger Emoji Sticker" Award! ( https://jack.cab/blog/every-firefox-extension#the-middle-fin... ) I quickly wrote up how: https://www.arnevogel.com/firefox-permissions/

At least you put effort into it and break it.

Yet Dr.B extension keep balooning and getting crazier day by day!

Now as I write this, it has 97 extensions from prior 84 extension

Man, how many slop will he keep putting out there.

Re: Installing every* Firefox extension

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Post by evolve2k » Sat, Apr 11, 2026, 7:34 PM UTC

I’d like to image with a bit more work, the Firefox core dev team funding this into a CI test and chipping aaay at performance both of Firefox and policies around what goes in the store. Better scanners when extensizoms are unplosded would likely suppprt big gains in removing the poorest quality stuff here and addressing what is leaking memory and is over resource hungry.

Re: Installing every* Firefox extension

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Post by robotnikman » Sat, Apr 11, 2026, 9:34 PM UTC

Evidlo wrote: post #27

stratos123 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My favorite part was the metal pipe sound effect. Wish the author investigated which extension does that.

Maybe it was this? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/random-metal-...

This gives me an idea for an extension similar to this mod but for Firefox, for those who are insane enough to try it: 1/10000 Chance for Withered Foxy Jumpscare Every Second

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=34819...

Re: Installing every* Firefox extension

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Post by thephyber » Sat, Apr 11, 2026, 9:34 PM UTC

prmoustache wrote: post #73

thephyber wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you just admit to a CFAA violation?

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It’s a reasonable default when commenting on a US-based site in English to an English comment about an English article.

Quit being a useless scold.

Re: Installing every* Firefox extension

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Post by andOlga » Sat, Apr 11, 2026, 11:46 PM UTC

Chaosvex wrote: post #37

shakna wrote: post #20

Earlier 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.

The SQLite parts that exist in Firefox right now are no less fiddly. If you crash the thing and the journal files are still there, it starts back up and presents you with a blank profile. Absolutely horrifying if you don't know about this quirk (and about the fact that you can go in and delete those even after such a restart happens).