On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Linus Upson <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm coming to the opinion that we should leverage the install mechanism of
> the extension system for apps that need special permissions, increased
> quotas, expanded lifetimes, etc. The extension can be almost vacuous, and in
> our extension world exceptionally lightweight. It only needs to make the
> special capability available to the page.
> As Maciej brought up on the whatwg list, the extension system gives us 
> multiple affirmative steps,
> vetting, reputation and revocation. It also gives us a UI access point. All
> of these are important for controlling apps that aren't safe and stateless.
>

I like this approach.

So the only loose end is this: what should we do (if anything) about
malicious apps using thousands of sub-domains (which are each their own
origin, and thus get their own 5mb) to fill up your machine.  As far as I
know, no other browser deals with this and it hasn't ever been a problem
(...yet), so I guess we can just ignore it for the time being?

J

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