Mandi! Mike Kaply
In chel di` si favelave...
> The thing that is going away is the concept of sideloading where you put
> extensions in a central location and they get loaded into Firefox and the user
> can't remove them (they can only disable them).
> You will still be able to put extensions into distribution/extensions because
> they simply get installed into Firefox as normal extensions.
Things get newer, anche change. It is normal.
But still i'm lost trying to understand *why* of that change. Looking
at:
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/10/31/firefox-to-discontinue-sideloaded-extensions/
seems to me that the trouble came from the fact that some 'threat' have
hijacked 'sideloading' to have their extensions loaded and locked.
This mean to me that the 'threat' had to be executed as 'administrator'
(to copy extension in 'extensions' and to put some 'js' files in
'defaults\preferences', to use Autoconfig to prevent extension
disabling or uninstallation.
But if users have administrator right on the local machine, can also hijack
the new 'policy' settings, probably doing nastier things!
So, really i don't understand the benefit of new 'policy' method of
installing extensions versus the 'sideloading+Autoconfig' old one.
Still i prefere sideloading (why duplicate all extensions for all
users, when i can install only one time?), but if we have to change,
what are really the benefit?
If is only a 'preferences mess cleanup', why not simply add a policy
'SideloadExtensions = true'?
Also, if we have to switch to policy, please have the distribution/policies.json
to be non-monolithic: have a single file is a bit rigid nowadays, where
modern configuration files work on split-files.
Eg, make the parser load not only 'distribution/policies.json' but also
(for examples) 'distribution/policies/*.json' with 'policy snippets'.
Thanks.
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