Mozilla Blocks Official Skype Toolbar Add-on for Firefox

Re:Mozilla Blocks Official Skype Toolbar Add-on for Firefox by Hacktivist on Friday January 21, 2011 @03:43AM (#2126881)

I wish they would make it so that addons and plugins can only be installed inside Firefox (via addons.mozilla.org, File > Open or exceptions for trusted sites.)

I have seven plugins listed and I only installed two of them.

  2007 Microsoft Office system - Installed with Office 2007
  Google Update - Installed with Google Chrome (??)
  Java Deployment Toolkit - Installed with Java (on Firefox blocklist)
  Java Platform - Installed with Java
  Picasa - Installed with Google Picassa
  Shockwave Flash - I installed this
  Silverlight - I installed this

In the extension category only two are there that I didn't installed

  FiddlerHook - Installed with Fiddler (not removed after uninstalling Fiddler, uninstall button greyed out in Firefox)
  Java Console - Installed with Java

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Re:Mozilla Blocks Official Skype Toolbar Add-on for Firefox by ciupicri on Friday January 21, 2011 @11:07AM (#2127728)

That wouldn't be good for Linux distributions which have their own package management system. For example Fedora offers the following packages: mozilla-adblockplus, mozilla-vlc, mozilla-noscript etc.

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Re:Mozilla Blocks Official Skype Toolbar Add-on for Firefox by theBobMcCormick on Friday January 21, 2011 @12:27PM (#2128029)

IMHO, the Linux distros are doing it wrong. Just because you have a package management system, doesn't mean you have to use it for everything. I think hackers have seen the absolutely shitpile that most distro's make when they try to override things like CPAN, Ruby Gems, etc. They really need to go hands off on some of those things and let the secondary package manager do it's job

Just because you've got a hammer, doesn't mean every problem is a nail.

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Re:Mozilla Blocks Official Skype Toolbar Add-on for Firefox by getsat on Friday January 21, 2011 @06:33AM (#2127108)

Definitely. As a hacktivist, I'm sure you're familiar with the dangers of browser plugins. I find that browsers allow this behaviour to be extremely unnerving.

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