Mozilla on Tuesday warned users that a password-stealing add-on slipped into Firefox’s extension gallery more than a month ago had been downloaded nearly 2,000 times before it was detected. The ...

Mozilla today announced major changes coming to how Firefox add-ons are built. While this is mainly aimed at add-on developers, the end results will trickle down to Firefox users over the next few ...

The Firefox backer is getting serious about a second crack at Jetpack, its new-and-improved foundation for add-ons to customize the browser. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

The Mozilla Foundation, which maintains the popular Firefox web browser, announced Tuesday that it removed a Firefox add-on called "Mozilla Sniffer" which was intercepting login data and transmitting ...

The misbehaving Firefox add-ons were misusing an API that controls how Firefox connects to the internet. Mozilla’s Firefox team has blocked add-ons that were abusing the proxy API in order to prevent ...

On October 25, the development team said that in early June, Firefox discovered add-ons that were misusing the browser's proxy API, used by software to manage how the browser connects to the internet.

Over the past two weeks, Mozilla's add-on review team has banned 197 Firefox add-ons that were caught executing malicious code, stealing user data, or using obfuscation to hide their source code. The ...