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"This add-on is not actively monitored for security by Mozilla. Make sure you trust it before installing." What?


A lot of legitimate Firefox Addons say that. Just means Moz can't manually review every single extension if they want to allow their users a good extension experience...unlike developing Chrome extensions


> Just means Moz can't manually review every single extension

The extension in question is authored by Mozilla.


Different teams.

In the case of extensions like this one should be asking , “Do I trust the author?”


I’m sure that you can piece together how this could happen.




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