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Home Architecture, security and coding New review process for Firefox Addons
New review process for Firefox Addons
Written by Division by Zero   
Friday, 16 July 2010 11:44

You may have heard about the discovery of a backdoor in one of the Firefox addons. This discovery, made completely by chance, led to a new review process for addons to prevent this from happening in the future. The proposed process is partly automated and partly and partly by human review.

Though the down side of this process is that it will take longer to get extensions accepted, this is a really good idea. To be able to review extentions obfuscated extensions are banned, which will make everything more open. And this is a good thing. The Mozilla Foundation stands for openness, therefore it's only logical that the extensions should be as open as possible. Take a look at the new review process here.

This discovery shows once more that openness and reviews will lead to better and more secure software.

 

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