Firefox is proud of its browser add-ons, and has even started Fashion Your Firefox to package them for users. But yesterday it warned people off some add-ons that they class as “experimental,” such as the China Channel, which allows people to surf the Web with the restrictions they’d find in China.
A Mozilla spokesman said:
“They haven’t been approved and so they may pose risks to users.”
Around 1000 users have downloaded the China Channel. One user experienced an “uninstall bug” and lost all proxy settings after he closed Firefox. Vnunet tested the channel and discovered that pages blocked by the channel stayed blocked even after disabling the add-on.
