It zdnet reports, Mozilla announced plans to stop supporting Firefox in the side of the carrier extended . Starting next year, Firefox users will not be able to expand XPI file in a special file in the user directory folder to install the Firefox extension. This method is called side-loading, was originally intended to help developers of desktop applications created. If you want a desktop application distribution Firefox extensions, developers can configure the program to install the application to file the Firefox XPI file in Firefox browser extensions folder.
Firefox extension developers can use this method in the early days, now Mozilla for security risks, it announced plans to stop supporting side loaded extension.
Caitlin Neiman Mozilla Add-ons community manager, said: "side load extensions often cause problems for users, because they do not explicitly choose to install them, you can not delete them from the Add-ons Manager." He also said, "In the past it has also adopted kind of mechanism will install malicious software into Firefox. "
Next, Mozilla plans to stop supporting this feature in the next year plan in two phases. The first will take place in February 2020 when Firefox73 were issued, to March 2020, with the release of Firefox74, Mozilla plans to completely cancel the side loading the extended functionality. Until then, Mozilla carrier extensions are desirable on all sides in the moving part of the user's "add" section. By doing so, Mozilla also wants to help clean up some Firefox installed, the malware authors are secretly hidden behind these extensions of the user.
Of course, Mozilla also provides two methods of loading the extended retention. The first is to install extensions from the official addons.mozilla.org (AMO) portal. The second involves the use of Firefox "add-ins" section of the "Installing add-in from the file" option.
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