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Thanks for the comment. It's a valid concern. Chrome and Firefox have a review team for their extension marketplace, though I believe there are instances of ma

Thanks for the comment. It's a valid concern. Chrome and Firefox have a review team for their extension marketplace, though I believe there are instances of malicious extensions getting through anyway. And while rather labor intensive, another path toward vetting is examining the source code. I haven't obfuscated it, and Googling for "view extension source code" has many results. And for what it's worth, I can give an assurance that I'm not a bad actor. Maybe relevant: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...

CTDOCodebases 4y ago
If you update the extension does it automatically update for the users or does the user have to manually install the update? Regardless I love the idea of this.
- lawrencehook 4y ago
  There's an option in Firefox to disable auto-updates for an extension. Not as easy in Chrome, but there's ways to do it. For example here's one: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-extensions/c/uupqer_Wd-k?pli=1 https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-extensio...
Blue111 4y ago
> Chrome and Firefox have a review team for their extension marketplace Has this Firefox extension been reviewed? because most don't get reviewed