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Clarify permissions

Open bllngr opened this issue 6 years ago • 1 comments

Why does Foxified need all of these permissions? From a user perspective, it should need not more than access to Chrome's extensions store and maybe mozilla.org

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bllngr avatar Dec 07 '17 16:12 bllngr

The permissions are scarier then what it actually means:

https://palant.de/2016/07/02/why-mozilla-shouldn-t-copy-chrome-s-permission-prompt-for-extensions

The only permission that I would freak out about is if you see "native messaging". I honestly think the permission for that is not as scary as it should be. If you see "native messaging", the addon can do criminal stuff.

Access data for all websites means I needed to inject a script to change "Add to Chrome" to "Add to Firefox", ridiculously scary for what actually happens.

The permissions system is a total failure. Red alarms when there should be green alarms.

Noitidart avatar Dec 07 '17 22:12 Noitidart