Mozilla updates its Firefox Add-on Policy

From	John Corliss <r9jmg0@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.freeware
Subject	Mozilla updates its Firefox Add-on Policy
Date	2019-05-02 23:22 -0700
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<qagmna$818$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)

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Mozilla will make changes to Firefox Add-on policies in June 2019 that
are designed to improve user safety and privacy when using extensions.

Starting in June 2019, extensions may no longer contain obfuscated code.
Caitlin Neiman, Mozilla's Add-ons Community Manager notes that
extensions may still use minified, concatenated or otherwise
machine-generated code, but that the source code needs to be included
and that obfuscation is not allowed anymore.

Mozilla will improve the blocking process as well to block extensions
"more proactively" if they violate policies.
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Full article is here:

https://www.ghacks.net/2019/05/03/mozilla-updates-its-firefox-add-on-policy/

Maybe somebody can point out a bad side to something mentioned in the
article but personally, I couldn't see anything negative about what
Mozilla is doing by implementing this new policy.

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Mozilla updates its Firefox Add-on Policy John Corliss <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2019-05-02 23:22 -0700
  Re: Mozilla updates its Firefox Add-on Policy Yrrah <Yrrah-acf@acf.invalid> - 2019-05-03 14:15 +0200
    Re: Mozilla updates its Firefox Add-on Policy John Corliss <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2019-05-03 10:51 -0700
    Re: Mozilla updates its Firefox Add-on Policy "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2019-05-04 02:11 +0800
      Re: Mozilla updates its Firefox Add-on Policy "Gary R. Schmidt" <grschmidt@acm.org> - 2019-05-04 15:02 +1000
  Re: Mozilla updates its Firefox Add-on Policy JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2019-05-03 19:42 +0700
    Re: Mozilla updates its Firefox Add-on Policy John Corliss <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2019-05-03 10:53 -0700
  Re: Mozilla updates its Firefox Add-on Policy Spamblk <ZapSpam@SpamMeNot.invalid> - 2019-05-05 21:17 +0000
    Re: Mozilla updates its Firefox Add-on Policy John Corliss <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2019-05-06 04:31 -0700
      Re: Mozilla updates its Firefox Add-on Policy Spamblk <ZapSpam@SpamMeNot.invalid> - 2019-05-07 01:11 +0000
        Re: Mozilla updates its Firefox Add-on Policy John Corliss <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2019-05-07 03:25 -0700
          Re: Mozilla updates its Firefox Add-on Policy Spamblk <ZapSpam@SpamMeNot.invalid> - 2019-05-07 19:46 +0000
            Re: Mozilla updates its Firefox Add-on Policy John Corliss <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2019-05-08 03:58 -0700
              Re: Mozilla updates its Firefox Add-on Policy Spamblk <ZapSpam@SpamMeNot.invalid> - 2019-05-09 21:01 +0000

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