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It's an effective deterrent to keep power user away from your software as well! So if that's what Mozilla wants, they have their mission accomplished!
by SunlitCat 2y ago
It's an effective deterrent to keep power user away from your software as well! So if that's what Mozilla wants, they have their mission accomplished!
- reubenmorais 2y agoA power user only needs to RTFD: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Extension_Signing#FAQ https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Extension_Signing#FAQ
- SunlitCat 2y agoYeah...no. Only preview versions and developer versions can run unsigned addons. Both coming with their own set of reasons why you shouldn't use them as your daily browser.
- megous 2y agoAnd ESR, but that may not be normally distributed in Linux distros. It's not in Arch Linux. There's no hassle free solution. Only way to run your own code on normal branded Firefox release is to rely on third party signed extensions (eg. Violentmonkey), but that's not really hassle free either if you have 10s of userscripts and multiple browser profiles, and you have to trust some third-party to not go rogue. I got pretty terrible malware from mozilla add-on store in the past.