Security/Download Protection

Description

We warn on every application download, which causes warning fatigue and doesn't help users make good decisions. We should track the reputation of download URLs and hashes.

See Security/Features/Application_Reputation_Design_Doc for implementation details.

Engineering

• Tracking bug

Most of the code lives in toolkit/components/downloads/ApplicationReputation.cpp.

QA

• Test page

To turn on debugging output, export the following environment variable:

NSPR_LOG_MODULES="ApplicationReputation:5"

Documentation

• API Documentation available internally under NDA
• Announcement blog post