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Re:Firefox is on a slippery slope by krisives on Saturday December 16, 2017 @10:41PM (#15943948)
> callahad 4 hours ago [-]

Even if the add-on is "enabled," it's doesn't initialize itself unless a specific about:config value is also manually flipped

Attack surface 101 / reason nobody else does this

Re:Firefox is on a slippery slope by Sylos on Sunday December 17, 2017 @04:30AM (#15944984)
How is this a particular attack surface? Changing an about:config value requires quite a bit of effort from an attacker and enabling this extension would not actually pose a security risk either. There's plenty of better about:config values to be changing, too.