> In a sandbox even I, as the owner of the computer, can't let them out of. That's not cool. If you want unsandboxed extensions, you can install Nightly or Dev

> In a sandbox even I, as the owner of the computer, can't let them out of. That's not cool. If you want unsandboxed extensions, you can install Nightly or Dev Edition and flip the extensions.legacy.preference. The basic problem with providing a simpler escape hatch on release Firefox is that if you compare the number of users who are equipped to make an informed choice about allowing extension X arbitrary access to browser internals versus the number of users who will be tricked into letting malware do terrible things, the second number is multiple orders of magnitude larger than the first. I understand why folks are unsatisfied with the "use Nightly or Dev Edition with the preference flipped" solution but I am certain that it is the least bad option.