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Firefox 115 can silently remotely disable my extension on any site
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this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
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I wish I could have extensions default to off and be able to turn them on selectively on sites. For things like darkreader I don't want to use it 90% of the time so it shouldn't need to have at access to site data.
By the way, I don't like the title of this article, how is it done "remotely", it's just a list in about:config, no? Sounds clickbaity.
extensions are already disabled on Firefox help website. No dark reader will work there. They probably extended that capability into an actual backdoor.
Last time I checked companies don't share backdoors they've added in release notes.