Mozilla reveals Firefox add-on lockdown

JMH · Feb 16, 2015

Mozilla yesterday detailed plans to require Firefox add-ons to be digitally signed, a move meant to bear down on rogue and malicious extensions, and one that resembled Google's decision years ago to secure Chrome's add-on ecosystem.

Some Firefox users called out Mozilla for disregarding its own long-and-often-expressed ethos of the need for an open Internet.

"We're responsible for our add-ons ecosystem and we can't sit idle as our users suffer due to bad add-ons," said Jorge Villalobos, the add-ons developer relations lead at Mozilla, in a blog post Wednesday.

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Mozilla reveals Firefox add-on lockdown

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