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sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Nighed@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Either a browser is bad because it doesn’t allow extensions… Or it bad because it does and lets users install insecure stuff… Or it’s bad because it locks the extensions down so much you can’t do anything useful with them.

  Which type of bad are you shilling for?

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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Uh, genuinely no clue what you’re talking about.

    I just know that I can configure Waterfox to be both private/secure, and functional, fairly easily, and with most other browsers, that’s quite difficult, largely due to them being fundamentally controlled by giant corporations who have being a datamonger as a very significant element of their overall business model, who very much want you to watch the ads.

    And… because its based on / is a fork of Firefox… it was not vulnerable to or affected by this sleeper malware.

    Even if that’s not directly a result of some kind of software design/engineering paradigm type difference, and is just a kind of security through obscurity/non-popularity… thats still a very valid approach to using a computer system privately and securely.

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    • Nighed@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Why can’t Firefox be effected by this?

      Does chrome not ask about plugins requesting new permissions or something?

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      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Because ShadyPanda published a malicious extension for Edge and Chrome.

        Not for Firefox based browsers.

        … You… can’t install an Edge or Chrome extension in a Firefox based browser.

        You have to make a different version, designed for Firefox, sorta like a port of a video game; a DreamCast won’t play a PlayStation disc, an N64 won’t run a GameBoy cartridge.

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