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Re:Firefox 4 RC now available by amalcon on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @07:47PM (#2307416)
Technically, your operating system's security model allows this. There's little Firefox could do to prevent it.

This is a historical accident; only toy and mobile OSes have any sort of application-level access control.

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Re:Firefox 4 RC now available by HelloBeautiful on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @08:03PM (#2307459)
>> There's little Firefox could do to prevent it.

Wrong, they can just add DRM.

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