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Direct Extension Linking?

Over the past few weeks I have noticed more than a few people have been E-mailing me and asking the same question. Why do I not directly link to Firefox extensions and themes via this Web site?

Well I could, there is no technical reason not to - the problem I have is what if these places change the location of the Firefox extensions? I am not going to be one who wants to go through and edit the hundreds of posts I have done thus far by hand. Not that I don’t love you folks enough to to it - it would just be a big waste of time for me.

So now that has been answered, let’s get back to talking about the fun things in Firefox!

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Vili Maunula said,

January 17, 2007 @ 3:40 pm

I agree with you completely.

I don’t know what you exactly mean by “direct linking”, but if it means linking directly to the files themselves, I think that is not only bad practice but also insecure — I as a user definitely want to know where the extensions I am downloading are coming from.

Similarly, if there is an option to choose between installing an extension or a theme from the Mozilla Addons site or from the extension/theme’s own website, I will always choose the Mozilla Addons site for security reasons.

Foxkeh

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