Mozilla updates its Firefox 3.6 beta to block add-ons from adding code to Firefox’s components directory. The move is meant to reduce crashes and will keep vendors from silently installing Firefox add-ons without permission from the user, Mozilla says.
– Mozilla has added an extra wall in Firefox 3.6 to block
third-party add-ons from loading in the browser’s application components
directory.
The change prevents third-party applications from
adding code to Firefox’s components directory which houses
much of Firefox’s own code and will thereby k…