From: Rich Gauszka 

I'm no expert either. Mozilla with FF 3 is closing one hole that will block
the installation of unsecured extensions. More about the vulnerability in
the upgrade mechanism at

http://paranoia.dubfire.net/

for the exploit outlined above you are at risk : When you use a public
wireless network, an untrusted Internet connection, or a wireless home
router with the default password set.

> I'm not expert enough to know, but it seems to me that noscript, cookie
> safe, and flashblock are security enhancement must haves.  I don't see
> how the internal eye candy ones would be security risks, but I'm no expert.
>
> Gary
>
> Rich Gauszka wrote:
>> I don't doubt that there are good FF extensions. I've used quite a few
>> in the past but currently I just wonder if they are worth the
>> potential security risk.
>>
>>
>> Gary Britt wrote:
>>> See my response to Richard.  You might be missing some good ones.
>>>
>>> Gary
>>>
>>> Rich Gauszka wrote:
>>>> I use FF but I keep my extensions to the minimum ( none ) as I feel
>>>> they're yet another potential exploit waiting to happen.
>>>>
>>>>
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/464875/100/0/threaded
>>>>
>>>> Firefox extensions go Evil
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Gary Britt" 
wrote in message
>>>> news:46683a7e$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>>> Hey for all you firefox users out there, I just happened on an
>>>>> extension I think is pretty cool.  Its called
"Tab Effect" and what
>>>>> it does is when a new tab is opened or switch from one tab to
>>>>> another it animates the switch by having the current
page and the
>>>>> page you are changing to swing around as though the
pages were on
>>>>> the sides of a cube so the cube turns and the current
page swings
>>>>> out of view and the new page swings into view.  Its
pretty cool and
>>>>> doesn't take anything special in terms of hardware or
video card.
>>>>>
>>>>> I like it anyway.
>>>>>
>>>>> Gary
>>>>
>>>>

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