Re: Blog post on Firefox 58.
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Gene
People are an important part of the problem.
But the security environment is less in the control of people than it used to
be. Just yesterday, I saw an article discussing how much more common it is
for reputable web sites to have hacked advertising on them and how difficult it
is to detect hacked advertising for the users and the advertising companies that
provide adds. Saying the user is the problem for security is not
accurate. If people were the problem, then if someone really knew what
they were doing, they could avoid all infections without using any antimalware
programs. That isn't true. Maybe this so-called paranoia you object
to so strenuously is in recognition of the possibility that malware will become
increasingly sophisticated over time. I don't know that but I wouldn't be
at all surprised. With so much money to be made, why shouldn't it?
Maybe what you are objecting to is actually a
reason to use Firefox.
Gene
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Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 10:00 AM
Subject: Re: [nvda] Blog post on Firefox 58. cannot be that hard to achieve and you could turn them on and off. I can see I'll be looking for a better browser if they continue down this over the top security path. people are the problem for security, and unless Mozilla are intending to replace people as well they are on a fools errand! Brian bglists@... Sent via blueyonder. Please address personal email to:- briang1@..., putting 'Brian Gaff' in the display name field. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shaun Everiss" <sm.everiss@...> To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 9:37 PM Subject: Re: [nvda] Blog post on Firefox 58. > Well navigational sounds will never become part of firefox, I asked the > short answer is that due to the new web extentions framework, while a lot > of improvements are made, there are a lot of things that have been killed > for security reasons. > > One of these is registry access which the addon uses. > > It uses windows sounds. > > So for that to even work it would have to have its own sounds and have > those as part of the addon and each event would need adding manually. > > It would be good if firefox had things like a download completed sound, or > other sounds or simply had a way to access windows sound registry info or > things, ofcause there is security issues accessing registry info I guess > but if that was part of the permitions I don't see a problem. > > One thing I was and am still sore about is the fact the new addons ie > noscript due to what firefox did can not have the menu bar they had and > options all of them are buttons which seem to be out of my reach. > > > > > On 24/01/2018 6:43 a.m., J.G wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I posted a comment on this blog about sounds in future Firefox (see it) >> and MR Zehe replied me, that he has not known Navigational sounds addon >> until now and there is currently no plan to embed sounds into Firefox. So >> if we want this feature, we must contact developers and politely request >> this feature. >> >> regards, Jožef >> > > > >
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