It's certainly worrying given the number of security- and privacy-related addons people rely on working. Seeing ads in thumbnails is relatively harmless (if disconcerting), but if someone is relying on an addon for important security or privacy reasons, and we auto-updated them and bypassed their protections, that's more serious.
-Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Philip Chee" <philip.c...@gmail.com> To: dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org Sent: Friday, August 2, 2013 12:30:29 PM Subject: Re: reminder: content processes (e10s) are now used by desktop Firefox On 02/08/2013 16:57, t...@adblockplus.org wrote: > The code in question was explicitly running in Firefox Mobile only. > It used messageManager.loadFrameScript() API to inject code into the > content process of new tabs - I doubt that it will work the same > here, Adblock Plus would probably need to look explicitly for these > <browser remote="true"> elements (is there an event when they are > created?). > > Altogether, supporting this in Adblock Plus should be possible - but > it will require significant amounts of additional code and introduce > quite a bit of new complexity. I also have doubts whether this is > work that should receive priority. It has just occurred to me that Flashblock would probably be affected similarly. Phil -- Philip Chee <phi...@aleytys.pc.my>, <philip.c...@gmail.com> http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ http://xsidebar.mozdev.org Guard us from the she-wolf and the wolf, and guard us from the thief, oh Night, and so be good for us to pass. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
