Ever since the Seamonkey Suite was forked from the standalone web browser, it has been standard practice for major components that are not an integral part of browsing the Web, such as Chatzilla, Sunbird, Thunderbird, etc. to be made either optional Add-ons or standalone apps.
Firefox Hello is one of those components. It has clear privacy and security problems, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=959893 http://thehackernews.com/2015/02/webrtc-leaks-vpn-ip-address.html which appear to be flaws inherent to the WebRTC standard itself, if the commentary on the bug is to believed. WebRTC should never have been included in Firefox to begin with, much less turned on by default, much less leaking potentially sensitive information without prompting the user. It seems entirely appropriate to place in an Add-on, where the few users who require it and are willing to live with its flaws can get it as needed. _______________________________________________ dev-media mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-media
