There are around 1,800 downloads of all language dictionaries as on June 27, 2019. I have checked some sample dashboards from this page...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... age-tools/
For e.g. check this chart...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... s/?last=30
I will like to know why there are so many downloads on a single day. Is this some kind of DDOS attack?
Here are some more public dashboards those show a very clear trend. For e.g. on July 15 there are around 980 downloads across all languages. How is that possible?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... s/?last=30
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... s/?last=90
I am not sure if I can trust the numbers anymore. Can average daily users increase many-fold across all languages in just a few days?
Very high downloads of spell check add-ons
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Re: Very high downloads of spell check add-ons
You may want to post on https://discourse.mozilla.org/c/add-ons ... ozilla-org or somewhere else official. The people who would need to know are not here.
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Re: Very high downloads of spell check add-ons
could be the result of latest security fix
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/ ... sa2019-21/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/ ... sa2019-21/
there still exists malicious extensions which are able to load other extensions without interaction. in case of that CVE there is abuse to expect.CVE-2019-9811: Sandbox escape via installation of malicious language pack