Firefox 56 in FreeBSD: Safe Browsing API key required

[Jan Beich]

Francois Marier <francois at mozilla.com> writes:

> Essentially, you can't use download protection on non-official builds
> (it wouldn't be of any value on BSD anyways, it's mostly for Windows
> malware), and you need to use a different phishing list.

FreeBSD can run Windows programs via Wine and Linux programs via linuxulator.
Not every malware would work, obviously. However, a quick test[1] shows
Chromium (i.e. unbranded build) on FreeBSD does block any malware download.

[1] https://testsafebrowsing.appspot.com/ (see Desktop Download Warnings)