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		Xylakant on May 4, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Update Regarding Add-Ons in Firefox On a typical Linux install, the Firefox binary is not writeable by a malicious extension installer that runs with user privileges. Thus baking the check into the binary fully protects the integrity.

the8472 on May 4, 2019 [–]

Then overrides could also be made configurable as root.

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