News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Memories of Mozilla at 15 and Thoughts on Mozilla Research. Parent comment

Re:Memories of Mozilla at 15 and Thoughts on Mozilla Research by fabrice_d on Thursday April 04, 2013 @03:21PM (#5494671)
You can install extensions from any site. You'll only get an additional prompt if you're not installing from the mozilla add-on site.

You can think it was about control, but this could not be farther from truth.

<disclaimer>I work for mozilla</disclaimer>

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Memories of Mozilla at 15 and Thoughts on Mozilla Research by wslh on Thursday April 04, 2013 @03:32PM (#5494738)
An additional prompt means less conversions.

There are alternative methods that Mozilla could do, like bringing a Mozilla certificate to host the extension in your own site without an extra prompt.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Memories of Mozilla at 15 and Thoughts on Mozilla Research by BrendanEich on Saturday April 06, 2013 @02:07PM (#5504407)
And how would we decide to whom to extend the certificate? To whom should we entrust "conversions"?

You are talking around the larger problem, which is a huge one for many extension and app ecosystems (e.g. Google Play, where weak-AI scanners fail to stop malware and spamware).

Mozilla uses community review, which works much better but is of course imperfect, a human thing.

No one that I know of has solved this larger problem. I would be interested in research pointers and tips (not complaints).

/be

[ Parent | on HN ]