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Re:Firefox 42 will not allow unsigned extensions by piyush_soni on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @12:04PM (#10042077)
It's been a few months already, and Mozilla is still 'undecided' on what will happen to Enterprise add-ons.

The only two options you are giving us are: 1) Either remain on 'ESR' branch, which is always outdated, OR, 2) Reveal private Enterprise source code to you to get it signed (it might even be illegal for employees to do that).

Both of them could be unacceptable to many organizations.

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Re:Firefox 42 will not allow unsigned extensions by callahad on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @12:17PM (#10042210)
There will also be automated, unbranded builds of Firefox Stable that allow you to disable the signing requirement, but are otherwise bit identical.
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Re:Firefox 42 will not allow unsigned extensions by TheLoneWolfling on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @10:01PM (#10045593)
In which case what's stopping the malicious software from replacing the official build with the sign-disabled version?

There is no way of doing this that both respects users freedoms and prevents malicious software.

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