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"Security" of Thunderbird Add Ons

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clazarou
clazarou

Hi All:

Is there a vetting process for Add Ons that reviews code for nefarious ulterior motives?

Hi All: Is there a vetting process for Add Ons that reviews code for nefarious ulterior motives?

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Add-ons offered via the official website are checked over and vetted by Mozilla.

And they are all open-source, so anyone is welcome to download and pore over the source code to see what it does. (Not that many of us can actually make any sense of it. ;-) )

Have you had any particular experience to prompt you to ask this question?

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Zenos
Zenos

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Add-ons offered via the official website are checked over and vetted by Mozilla.

And they are all open-source, so anyone is welcome to download and pore over the source code to see what it does. (Not that many of us can actually make any sense of it. ;-) )

Have you had any particular experience to prompt you to ask this question?

clazarou
clazarou Question owner

No particular experience, just trying to craft good standards for my co-workers! Thank you