Security News > 2023 > July > New Mozilla Feature Blocks Risky Add-Ons on Specific Websites to Safeguard User Security

Mozilla has announced that some add-ons may be blocked from running on certain sites as part of a new feature called Quarantined Domains.

"We have introduced a new back-end feature to only allow some extensions monitored by Mozilla to run on specific websites for various reasons, including security concerns," the company said in its Release Notes for Firefox 115.0 released last week.

"This feature allows us to prevent attacks by malicious actors targeting specific domains when we have reason to believe there may be malicious add-ons we have not yet discovered," Mozilla said in a separate support document.

The development adds to Mozilla's existing capability to remotely disable individual extensions that pose a risk to user privacy and security.

"This is a terrible user interface design for the new so-called 'security' feature, silently disabling extensions while hiding the warning from the user," Johnson added.

Mozilla has said that it intends to improve the user experience in future releases, although it did not give a definitive timeline.

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