Posts Tagged ‘blocklist’

June 20, 2008 15

Firefox Keeps You Safe In Ways Other Browsers Don’t

By morgamic in Mozilla

You might know about some of the more glamorous Firefox 3 security features, but behind the scenes Firefox is protecting you from malicious extensions and plugins through its blocklisting service.
Depicted below is a diagram of how Firefox talks to its blocklist service. This is how it works:

Every day Firefox downloads an XML document from [...]

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