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It's important to note that the Developers Editions (and the Nightlys) will have a setting for disabling the requirement. The assumption being that developers

It's important to note that the Developers Editions (and the Nightlys) will have a setting for disabling the requirement. The assumption being that developers need to test as they develop. And are a more informed user.

duncan_bayne 11y ago
The other assumption being that there is a distinction between 'developers' and 'users'.
ethana 11y ago
Did they say why beta wouldn't have this setting? If anything beta is closer to release and developer would target that. Developer edition is still nightly if I'm not correct?
- GeorgeOrr 11y ago
  I don't see anything about why the beta, but I did see the following in the FAQ. Maybe this will help: "There will also be special unbranded versions of Release and Beta that will have this setting, so that add-on developers can work on their add-ons without having to sign every build."
- wsha 11y ago
  I think they want to encourage wider adoption of the Beta version, so they treat it similarly to the Release. The logic seems pretty questionable to me though. If you can install a Beta version of Firefox, you should be able to avoid consenting to allow malware to run on your computer (this change is primarily targeted at extensions installed by some user action -- like something silently side-loaded by an application installer).
- mccr8 11y ago
  Generally, beta is supposed to be almost completely identical to the release version, to ensure that what gets shipped to release users is tested. This particular pref seems harmless, but you never know. Developer edition is what used to be known as "Aurora", which is in between Beta and Nightly.
azakai 11y ago
The link also says that there will be builds of normal (release) and beta Firefox that do not have this limitation, for those that want them. (In addition to people always being able to recompile the browser with whatever modifications they want, of course.)
- rndgermandude 11y ago
  I was only commenting on the "trival build or not" part. You're right that there are plans to have official "unofficial" release and beta builds without signing requirements, but only for the en-US locale (yes, language packs exist, no, not every developer on Earth speaks English)
ubernostrum 11y ago
I had to flip that setting this morning when dev edition updated and disabled the 1Password extension. It's "xpinstall.signatures.required", for reference.
voltagex_ 11y ago
They've said that for a while, but the last time I had the Dev edition installed I couldn't install the Dashlane [1] plugin. 1: https://www.dashlane.com/en/cs/3bce5a89 https://www.dashlane.com/en/cs/3bce5a89
wtbob 11y ago
Every user should be permitted to disable that requirement: it's his browser, not Mozilla's.

duncan_bayne 11y ago

The other assumption being that there is a distinction between 'developers' and 'users'.

ethana 11y ago

Did they say why beta wouldn't have this setting? If anything beta is closer to release and developer would target that. Developer edition is still nightly if I'm not correct?

GeorgeOrr 11y ago
I don't see anything about why the beta, but I did see the following in the FAQ. Maybe this will help: "There will also be special unbranded versions of Release and Beta that will have this setting, so that add-on developers can work on their add-ons without having to sign every build."
wsha 11y ago
I think they want to encourage wider adoption of the Beta version, so they treat it similarly to the Release. The logic seems pretty questionable to me though. If you can install a Beta version of Firefox, you should be able to avoid consenting to allow malware to run on your computer (this change is primarily targeted at extensions installed by some user action -- like something silently side-loaded by an application installer).
mccr8 11y ago
Generally, beta is supposed to be almost completely identical to the release version, to ensure that what gets shipped to release users is tested. This particular pref seems harmless, but you never know. Developer edition is what used to be known as "Aurora", which is in between Beta and Nightly.

azakai 11y ago

The link also says that there will be builds of normal (release) and beta Firefox that do not have this limitation, for those that want them. (In addition to people always being able to recompile the browser with whatever modifications they want, of course.)

rndgermandude 11y ago
I was only commenting on the "trival build or not" part. You're right that there are plans to have official "unofficial" release and beta builds without signing requirements, but only for the en-US locale (yes, language packs exist, no, not every developer on Earth speaks English)

ubernostrum 11y ago

I had to flip that setting this morning when dev edition updated and disabled the 1Password extension. It's "xpinstall.signatures.required", for reference.

voltagex_ 11y ago

They've said that for a while, but the last time I had the Dev edition installed I couldn't install the Dashlane [1] plugin. 1: https://www.dashlane.com/en/cs/3bce5a89 https://www.dashlane.com/en/cs/3bce5a89

wtbob 11y ago

Every user should be permitted to disable that requirement: it's his browser, not Mozilla's.