Add-ons veiliger dan plug-ins? Hmm, wat moet je daar nou van denken? De maker van NoScript voert drie verschillen in de beveiliging van plug-ins en add-ons: 1. Extensions which are found to be unsafe can be promptly disabled worldwide by Mozilla admins using a remote centralized mechanism. This is true for plugins too, but Im very dubious that Mozilla would abruptly kill Flash (or even worse, Java) on all its users in reaction to a zero-day vulnerability disclosure& 2. Extensions enjoy a safe and very effective update mechanism, which allow security updates to be deployed almost instantly. The same cant be said for most, if not all, the most popular plugins. 3. The vast majority of Firefox extensions are open sourced. Those hosted on AMO, which is the only place where you can to safely install add-ons from* where Firefox sends you to safely install add-ons, must allow per-policy code reviews, therefore even in those rare cases where native executable code is included, this must comes with its ...