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Out of interest, what's special about this add-on that allows it to install intermediate certificates like this vs. an add-on that any random dev could write?

• AsyncAwait 7y ago
  It's installed as a study addon, only Mozilla could install these.
  • lol768 7y ago
    > It's installed as a study addon, only Mozilla could install these. And that gives it access to use `Cc`/Components.classes?
    • AsyncAwait 7y ago
      Not familiar with the specifics, just know that Mozilla uses this mechanism to sometimes ship experimental features to a select group of Firefox users that have it enabled and they used it today to issue this hotfix to anyone who has field studies enabled.
• ChrisSD 7y ago
  In the manifest it has a special "experiment_apis": "experiment_apis": { "skeleton": { "schema": "experiments/skeleton/schema.json", "parent": { "scopes": [ "addon_parent" ], "script": "experiments/skeleton/api.js", "paths": [ [ "experiments", "skeleton" ] ] } } } Only Mozilla can use these on release versions of Firefox. If you want some more details then try here: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/components/extensions/webextensions/index.html https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/components/e...
  • denibertovic 7y ago
    Where does it say specifically on that page you linked that only Mozilla can use these apis?
  • denibertovic 7y ago
    Also how can I verify that intermediate certificate? Is that a base64 encoded string?