On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Henri Sivonen <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think we shouldn't be giving add-ons that circumvent our mechanism
> like that the benefit of the doubt. Therefore, I suggest we eliminate
> the doubt by making identifiers used by our implementation obviously
> self-documenting. I suggest we rename extensions.enabledScopes to
> add-ons_caught_touching_this_will_be_considered_to_be_malware.extensions.enabledScopes,
> extensions.autoDisableScopes to
> add-ons_caught_touching_this_will_be_considered_to_be_malware.extensions.autoDisableScopes
> and similarly prefixing other prefs or file names used for tracking
> the add-on installation state. This way, we'd have no excuse to wait
> before blocklisting add-ons that circumvent the mechanism that puts
> users in control of add-on installation.

Filed as https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777249

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Henri Sivonen
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http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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