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Right, but my point is that if some bit of adware is capable of checking that box without being able to do far more nefarious things (like outright patching/replacing Firefox itself), then one particular symptom of that ability ought to be the least of users' - and Mozilla's - concerns; that indicates an ability to modify the execution state of a program during runtime, in which case probably nothing on that computer is safe.



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