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Is there a way to automatically extract files upon download? (self.firefox)
submitted 1 year ago by maness300 to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That sounds like a great idea until you download a zip bomb

[–] maness300 2 points 1 year ago

It's my understanding that this is the default behavior on Macs: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/n5l4de/is_there_an_addon_that_unzips_a_zip_file/

If they can do it, why can't we?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn't most software now recognize that now though?

[–] computergeek125 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

ZIP bomb is definitely among the most mundane of issues you could cause yourself by automatically unzipping a compressed archive.