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Re: Looks good!
by Víctor Fernández on Thursday 09/Jun/2005, @12:23

Firefox extensions create a lot of security holes and make it unstable. I'm the developer of Plastikfox and extensions usually step one on top of other forcing me to do dirty hacks to make it work. They have full access to all the parts of the browser, which is very dangerous. Also, extension developers don't usually care not to do things that could break other extensions. They just care their extension works but sometimes two extensions try to access the same resource causing problems. The result is a bunch of bloated dirty code running on your computer that could explode in your face at any time. If they were implemented in a clean way it would be a point but they don't. That's the reason I don't like extensions and I wouldn't like Konqueror to get that too, or at least in a similar way to Firefox. Perhaps if extensions were implemented in a way similar like plugins are (being them all independent and one extension not having access to others' variables an code) it would be much better.

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Re: Looks good!
by Jim on Thursday 09/Jun/2005, @13:59

> Firefox extensions create a lot of security holes and make it unstable.

What is your basis for saying that? As I pointed out to another person who said the same thing, the facts don't seem to agree with your opinion.

> That's the reason I don't like extensions and I wouldn't like Konqueror to get that too

Erm... Konqueror has been extendable for years. What I'm talking about is making it *easier* to extend.

Right now, you need to extend Konqueror in C++, and that opens up a hell of a lot more ways for an extension writer to screw up than Firefox extensions.

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Re: Looks good!
by mabinogi on Thursday 09/Jun/2005, @15:31

and why did you think you'd find bugs related to 3rd party extensions in the mozilla bug database?

The trouble with Firefox extensions is that they've given full access to the browser, but are generally only written and maintained by one person. Often someone with very little experience.
They just don't have the same level of QA as the browser itself.

Obviously there are exceptions, but the Firefox extension mechanism opens itself up for a whole lot of half arsed buggy, insecure extensions.

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