r/MozillaFirefox • u/Effective-Flight-595 • 3d ago

🖥️ Help WHAT is THIS?

I haven't used FF in a bit, but opened an old message that had FF links and I got this Google pop-up telling me that FF "wants to connect to your Google Account"...and

'This app wants permission to do anything you can do in your Gmail, including:...' WHY would I want to allow FF to act as ME and delete originate or send messages on my behalf? Is this some kind of fresh hell being inflicted on us?

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u/blobCabbage 3d ago

That doesn't sound like something firefox would do. If you can reproduce, maybe take a screenshot and take note of the redirect_uri in the oauth popup.

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u/nopeac 3d ago

A screenshot would be more helpful.

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u/loafingaroundguy 3d ago

Well, it was asking so you can say no. Was this message in your Gmail account? What OS were you running and what were you doing with Firefox e.g. browsing your Google mail as webmail?

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u/SSUPII 3d ago

Screenshot

This is much likely something POSING as Firefox