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Re:All Tridactyl installations might get removed by Firefox ... by gruez on Friday August 16, 2019 @05:34PM (#20719942)
This. The whole point of this security feature is to prevent extensions from interfering with Mozilla pages. What's the point of this when addons can bypass turn it off themselves?
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Re:All Tridactyl installations might get removed by Firefox ... by cmcaine on Friday August 16, 2019 @05:45PM (#20720014)
Only extensions that have a native messenger can do this (which requires users to accept a scary sounding permission and install a separate application on their computer)
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