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gruez on July 13, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Add-Ons Outage Post-Mortem Result

>[...] is only running with the privileges of the user, it can't modify the Firefox install itself

It can however, attach to Firefox as a debugger and modify it's code as needed (ptrace/writeprocessmemory).

bzbarsky on July 14, 2019 [–]

Attaching as a debugger may require elevated privileges too (e.g. on Mac).

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