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Topic subjectRE: Phony popup?
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565992, RE: Phony popup?
Posted by therube, Fri May-10-19 03:51 PM
That's exactly correct.
You cannot tell a malicious FF extension "by looking".

These days, I would not trust FF extensions - unless they're continuations of preexisting legacy versions of same.

And even with that, they still have to be suspect.
https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r32385510-Extension-FireFox-52-9-0-ESR-Disables-Flash-Video-Downloader-Extension