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I find my explanation more plausible than the implication that "Firefox went through the effort of making plugins required to be signed for any other reason so

• the8472 8y ago
  That's not what I am saying. I am saying that through a chain of choices they arrived at a specific conclusion how to solve their problem and then added justifications that admitted no alternatives when alternative solutions would have avoided the situation today. People, including myself, were argueing against putting mozilla in a position where they are a single point of failure. That critique was countered with the specific argument that giving users an override is not acceptable because any override could also be used by adware and thus mozilla must be the sole arbiter of what addons can be installed.