New rules for extensions - will they save Firefox?

After the scandal with the conflict between Noscript and Adblock, it became clear: you need to change something in the rules of the Firefox extensions so that the incident does not happen again. Indeed, only in the worst dream you can imagine that some extensions will start “fighting” between themselves right in the browser, and this is exactly what happened in the story with Noscript and Adblock. The developers specifically made new versions of their products, interfering with the work of the "enemy". As you know, the Mozilla organization promptly proposed changes to the AMO policy for browser extensions. In accordance with the proposed changes, no extension has the right to change user settings without clearly explaining these changes and obtaining the user's consent. After removing the extension, all settings should be returned to its original state.

Of course, Mozilla is trying to put the maximum number of barriers to malicious extensions in the browser. However, all these actions, according to some experts , do not eliminate the essence of the problem. The problem is the absence of isolation of extensions from each other, as a result of which the creation of conflicting extensions remains possible both as a result of intentional sabotage and as a result of random conflicts of extensions. The more various developments - the more often such conflicts will occur.

In other words, the conflict between Noscript and Adblock is perhaps just another symptom of a deep-seated disease that continues to spread throughout the body. It is difficult to heal with spells (changes in the AMO policy).
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via Ars Technica