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I did read the blog post. It says I have to use a less stable (beta) or less customizable (dev edition) version of Firefox to avoid this burden.

soapdog 11y ago
Dev Edition is not less customizable... its just Firefox with a new theme and more bleeding edge dev tools which you should be using to develop addons anyway.
- Sir_Cmpwn 11y ago
  The theme is the problem I'm referring to.
  - djent 11y ago
    The cool thing about themes is that you can change them. Developer Edition just comes with a different default theme.
    - Sir_Cmpwn 11y ago
      For some reason I thought you couldn't change it. That's fine, then.
      - soapdog 11y ago
        Not only you can download a new theme but you can also develop a whole new one if you'd like.
atopal 11y ago
From https://wiki.mozilla.org/Addons/Extension_Signing https://wiki.mozilla.org/Addons/Extension_Signing "What are my options if I want to install unsigned extensions in Firefox? The Developer Edition and Nightly versions of Firefox will have a setting to disable signature checks. 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."
- Sir_Cmpwn 11y ago
  Ah, nice. Even so, I still have issues with this: - Special version of the software - Can't run my own version of AMO
  - reubenmorais 11y ago
    > - Can't run my own version of AMO You can, AMO is open source: https://github.com/mozilla/olympia https://github.com/mozilla/olympia Run your own instance and make your own builds of Firefox that point to it and you're good.
    - Sir_Cmpwn 11y ago
      >make your own builds of Firefox Yeah, let me just get all of the potential users of my AMO alternative to compile a custom version of Firefox for it
      - reubenmorais 11y ago
        If you want to run a custom AMO I'm assuming you're in a corporate environment or something like that where you can control what browser gets installed on people's machines. https://addons.mozilla.org https://addons.mozilla.org is an integral part of Firefox, if you set it up with an alternative you're effectively making your own fork.
        Sir_Cmpwn 11y ago
        It's not an integral part of Firefox, though. You can install add-ons without it by just clicking a link on any page that leads to an XPI, same as how AMO behaves. And no, I'm not in a corporate environment. I'm talking about decentralization.

soapdog 11y ago

Dev Edition is not less customizable... its just Firefox with a new theme and more bleeding edge dev tools which you should be using to develop addons anyway.

Sir_Cmpwn 11y ago
The theme is the problem I'm referring to.
- djent 11y ago
  The cool thing about themes is that you can change them. Developer Edition just comes with a different default theme.
  - Sir_Cmpwn 11y ago
    For some reason I thought you couldn't change it. That's fine, then.
    - soapdog 11y ago
      Not only you can download a new theme but you can also develop a whole new one if you'd like.

atopal 11y ago

From https://wiki.mozilla.org/Addons/Extension_Signing https://wiki.mozilla.org/Addons/Extension_Signing "What are my options if I want to install unsigned extensions in Firefox? The Developer Edition and Nightly versions of Firefox will have a setting to disable signature checks. 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."

Sir_Cmpwn 11y ago
Ah, nice. Even so, I still have issues with this: - Special version of the software - Can't run my own version of AMO
- reubenmorais 11y ago
  > - Can't run my own version of AMO You can, AMO is open source: https://github.com/mozilla/olympia https://github.com/mozilla/olympia Run your own instance and make your own builds of Firefox that point to it and you're good.
  - Sir_Cmpwn 11y ago
    >make your own builds of Firefox Yeah, let me just get all of the potential users of my AMO alternative to compile a custom version of Firefox for it
    - reubenmorais 11y ago
      If you want to run a custom AMO I'm assuming you're in a corporate environment or something like that where you can control what browser gets installed on people's machines. https://addons.mozilla.org https://addons.mozilla.org is an integral part of Firefox, if you set it up with an alternative you're effectively making your own fork.
      - Sir_Cmpwn 11y ago
        It's not an integral part of Firefox, though. You can install add-ons without it by just clicking a link on any page that leads to an XPI, same as how AMO behaves. And no, I'm not in a corporate environment. I'm talking about decentralization.