Bugtraq: Re: Evil side of Firefox extensions

["Mike Owen" <kyphros () gmail com>]

On 3/1/06, azurIt <azurit () pobox sk> wrote:
> the internet. The worst of all is that _anyone_, who has physical access to
> your computer, can install extensions into your browser _without_ your
> notification.
Not on a multi-user system. For example, on this Linux workstation, I
can install extensions for myself, but other users can't use them
because they are installed into my ~/.mozilla/firefox/blah/extensions
directory. If they are installed by root, then everyone can use them
because they are installed into /opt/firefox/extensions. If you give
everyone full access to your workstation, you deserve the
consequences.

Mike