[Greasemonkey] Security Concern & Help Request

Aaron Boodman zboogs at gmail.com
Wed Dec 7 13:41:05 EST 2005


On 12/7/05, Lenny Domnitser <ldrhcp at gmail.com> wrote:
> In the meanwhile, until the library thing is patched in, Platypus can
> attach its functions to unsafeWindow as it does now and then use the
> javascript: URL hack to safely access them. (I've been eagerly waiting
> to get Platypus saving for the new GM, so hacks are OK by me.)

This would of course expose Platypus to the same sorts of issues that
Greasemonkey itself was expoed to when it was manipulating
unsafeWindow directly. Let's not do that. The library thing should not
be hard to patch, and it is the right solution.

- a


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