I’m a fan of FOSS and reasonable privacy with data. I also often look for and install software on my computers for random tasks as they come up. Today, when I was looking to install an extension to Firefox called Wikipedia-EN that helps me search Wikipedia by highlighting a word, the Mozilla page for the extension states:
This add-on is not actively monitored for security by Mozilla. Make sure you trust it before installing.
As someone that is not educated in programming or perpetually current on tech news, what can I do to assess the safety of this and other software? Is there a site that transparently evaluates software and publishes its findings?
As a techie, I can say that’s a hot research area. There isn’t much useful stuff in it.
Well, you just found the Mozilla one. It has told you their findings.
They stated that they literally didn’t evaluate the plugins.
Yep. That’s the answer. That’s all the information the OP has available.