Installing Every* Firefox Extension

xnorswap 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This article is wonderful crazy.

The icing on the cake is the discovery of a potential performance bug in one or more of the about: pages, that's definitely worthy of following up.

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username135 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

"I got basically all the extensions with this, making everything I did before this look really stupid."

I geel this on a deep personal level.

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gathered 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm laughing so hard at the video, I imagine this is what browsing the web is like for the elderly that barely know how to use a computer. Can someone do this in Chrome?

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stratos123 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

My favorite part was the metal pipe sound effect. Wish the author investigated which extension does that.

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walrus01 15 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If you turn loose a completely untrained person to click yes/accept/download/OK/I agree on every type of user interface popup, particularly a person who has no ability to distinguish between a user interface question presented by the operating system itself and something inside of a browser window, that's what you'll get...

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Eddy_Viscosity2 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Where is the video, I scanned through and only saw still images.

	▲	SeanAnderson 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		https://jack.cab/blog/every-firefox-extension#attempts-4-10-...
	▲	rented_mule 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It's inline. Search the page for (and heed): epilepsy warning

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proactivesvcs an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

"In terms of implementation, the most interesting one is “Іron Wаllеt” (the I, a, and e are Cyrillic). Three seconds after install, it fetches the phishing page’s URL from the first record of a NocoDB spreadsheet and opens it [...] The API key had write access, so I wiped the spreadsheet."

	▲	methodist 41 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The extension is actually still up: hxxps://addons[.]mozilla[.]org/en-US/firefox/addon/%D1%96ron-w%D0%B0ll%D0%B5t/

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walrus01 16 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

In general concept this reminds me a bit of adding every possible installer .EXE based Internet Explorer browser toolbar to Windows 98

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ryanisnan 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Dang this is so good. Well done.

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thegdsks 18 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Good Luck Remembering all those icons.. Amazing

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lapcat 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> It turns out there’s only 84 thousand Firefox extensions.

On addons.mozilla.org, but you can distribute Firefox extensions without posting on addons.mozilla.org. I do.

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layer8 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

> I did some research to find why this took so long. 13 years ago, extensions.json used to be extensions.sqlite. Nowadays, extensions.json is serialized and rewritten in full on every write debounced to 20 ms, which works fine for 15 extensions but not 84,194.

Occasionally, databases are useful. ;)

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Waterluvian an hour ago | parent [-]

This is probably a good example of the opposite. It would be a mistake to design for the fleetingly rare case. If you’re dealing with a handful of extensions, a json file that’s rewritten is fine.

	▲	shakna 11 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		But the software already has multiple database systems built in. There's not exactly overhead to use what plumbing is already there, instead of writing to disk.
	▲	HPsquared an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		In an ideal world, software with 100 million users would be optimised for energy usage. It all adds up. This does pale in comparison to everything else, though.