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Most people do not know what a manifest.json is or what sort of permissions they're handing to a random WebExtension. If you want your freedom from reviewed ex
by lvh 7y ago
Most people do not know what a manifest.json is or what sort of permissions they're handing to a random WebExtension.
If you want your freedom from reviewed extensions: fine, get an unbranded Firefox, or Developer edition, and you get that.
- Wowfunhappy 7y agoA Developer Edition is unstable, so I wouldn’t want to use that. If you can recommend an fork that allows extension sideloading but is kept up to date, please do so, I’ve been looking...
- Wowfunhappy 7y agoOkay, figured it out. Thank you for giving me the search term "Unbranded Firefox"—I didn't realize this referred to something specific. Unbranded Firefox is actually a specific version of Firefox distributed by Mozilla, which allows you to disable extension signing requirements. I am very glad to see that they offer this, and I will be using it from now on. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Extension_Signing#Unbranded_Builds https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Extension_Signing#Unbranded...