{"id":1679,"date":"2006-09-20T19:19:30","date_gmt":"2006-09-20T13:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2006\/09\/how-to-remove-firefox-extensions-install-delay\/"},"modified":"2020-05-24T09:48:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T04:18:23","slug":"how-to-remove-firefox-extensions-install-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2006\/09\/how-to-remove-firefox-extensions-install-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Remove Firefox Extensions Install Delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2005\/12\/50-best-firefox-extensions-for-power-surfing\/\">Firefox extensions<\/a> can truly power up your firefox web browser. But when you install an extension or click on an XPI file (for the extension), a <strong>confirmation dialog pops up with a short wait<\/strong> of a few seconds, preventing you from immediately confirming the install. Why is there this delay in installing firefox extensions, is it necessary and how to skip the delay&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>First I point out that this install delay is incorportated in the extension installs because it is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squarefree.com\/2004\/07\/01\/race-conditions-in-security-dialogs\" rel=\"noopener\">security fix for a firefox bug<\/a>. Its \u00a0not merely to force readers to read the alert, but is in place to deny untrusted content.<\/p>\n<p>The more firefox extensions you play with, the more you want to remove the delay and more prone you are to the security issue.<\/p>\n<p>Though it is <strong>not recommended<\/strong>, if you still want to <strong>remove the delay<\/strong>, there is a firefox extension called MR Tech Disable XPI Install Delay, by Mel Reyes which disables default delay when installing extensions (part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2006\/01\/top-extensions-to-manage-firefox-extensions\/\">more extensions to manage extensions<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firefox extensions can truly power up your firefox web browser. But when you install an extension or click on an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-1679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","tag-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}