So it looks like it’s mostly to do with the account system of Firefox. I’m not sure why their websites would need special protection, but whatever. It’s not malicious, for now
Makes sense. You don’t want Addons to navigate to the addons page and install other addons. You also don’t want to give them access to the firefox sync data through your account to do the same from that end.
Is there even some way to see which addons this applies to on which websites? Or am I just going to find out randomly while browsing?
I was curious as well so I looked at the git tree. I’m not familiar with Firefox code, but I’m assuming I found the list:
pref("extensions.webextensions.restrictedDomains", "accounts-static.cdn.mozilla.net,accounts.firefox.com, addons.cdn.mozilla.net,addons.mozilla.org, api.accounts.firefox.com,content.cdn.mozilla.net, discovery.addons.mozilla.org,install.mozilla.org, oauth.accounts.firefox.com,profile.accounts.firefox.com, support.mozilla.org,sync.services.mozilla.com");From here
So it looks like it’s mostly to do with the account system of Firefox. I’m not sure why their websites would need special protection, but whatever. It’s not malicious, for now
Thanks! Nicer list:
Makes sense. You don’t want Addons to navigate to the addons page and install other addons. You also don’t want to give them access to the firefox sync data through your account to do the same from that end.