Mozilla deleted from the catalog addons.mozilla.org (AMO) developed since 2006 Supplement FVD Speed Dial , numbering about 69 thousand active settings. Supplement proposed an alternative implementation of the starting page, provided quick access to the most frequently visited sites and allowed to create visual bookmarks with dividing sites into groups. As the reason for the removal of is mentioned Violation of the Rules of the Directory, namely the interception of the addition of search queries sent by the search engine browser (In the rules explicitly is prohibited Accumulation of information about search queries or intercept them, even if this data is used by the supplement locally , for example, to provide a list with a query history).
The specified violation was first revealed in 2020, but after the issue notification, the developer turned off the specified functionality. Recently, the interception of requests was turned on again and after repeated violation of Mozilla deleted the addition, and also blocked the operation of the already installed instances, enclosing the addition of FVD Speed Dial in the lock list, turning off already installed on the User User Systems.
Users supplements indignant the fact that the blocking was made without warning and the negative effect of the termination of the complement Incoming with a detected violation that does not pose a violation of confidentiality (in Explanation About blocking causes There was no information about transmitting data on search queries to external servers, it was announced only about interception of requests). After installing Firefox 94.0.2 Update, the FVD Speed Dial complement stopped working, which led to loss of links and groups of sites added to access from the start page. Instructions for restoring added via FVD Speed Dial Bookmarks are not provided.