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Firefox 115 can silently remotely disable my extension on any site
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this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
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Can confirm. I just upgraded to 115, and tried out my own extension Obliterate Curves, which is similarly not monitored by mozilla due to how tiny it is. If the current domain is a "Quarantined Domain.", all extensions which aren't monitored will get downright disabled.
Do note, the list was empty by default. 100% troubling but hard to say where they'll go with it. Might end up as a "tick this website as secure" box later, though I'd personally prefer control over which sites an extension is allowed to run in.