Wladimir Palant personal blog

Mozilla shouldn't copy Chrome's permission prompt for extensions

As Mozilla’s Web Extensions project is getting closer towards being usable, quite a few people seem to expect some variant of Chrome’s permission prompt to be implemented in Firefox. So instead of just asking you whether you want to trust an add-on Firefox should list exactly what kind of permissions an add-on needs…
Points
110
HN comments
71
Submissions
1
Cited by
0 commenters

Web & FrontendSecurity & Privacy2016

On Hacker News

SubmittedTitle on HNPointsComments
Jul 3, 2016Mozilla shouldn't copy Chrome's permission prompt for extensions by bobajeff11071

More from Wladimir Palant

All 14 posts →

Related posts from the same era