Ubuntu
firefox package

  1. Bug #159258
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 159258

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In , Shaver (shaver) wrote :

How so? A helper app that's running as the user can do anything Mozilla can do.
 It can write to any files, open /proc/$mozillapid/fd/*, etc.

If you don't trust your helper apps, you're screwed in ways we can't begin to
protect against.