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.

Mozilla blocked malicious Firefox add-ons installed by roughly 455,000 users after discovering in early June that they were abusing the proxy API to block Firefox updates. The add-ons (named Bypass ...

Security is as much about choices as it is about policies. Which software solution you pick is as important as how you configure and use it. With the vast majority of threats today coming from the Web ...

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 ...