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Re:Mozilla pulls Bypass Paywalls from Firefox add-ons store by earenndil on Friday November 30, 2018 @04:33PM (#18572853)
If it's for an entire company, then it's easy enough to compile your own copy of firefox that accepts extensions signed with the company signature rather than mozilla.
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Re:Mozilla pulls Bypass Paywalls from Firefox add-ons store by funklebunkle on Saturday December 01, 2018 @01:47PM (#18578168)
It's really not. Small businesses exist.
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Re:Mozilla pulls Bypass Paywalls from Firefox add-ons store by earenndil on Saturday December 01, 2018 @04:11PM (#18578959)
If you have the resources to develop an internal company addon, you have the resources to build a firefox that accepts a different signature.
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Re:Mozilla pulls Bypass Paywalls from Firefox add-ons store by jamietanna on Saturday December 01, 2018 @04:36PM (#18579109)
Respectfully disagree - having to rebuild each time patches come out, on multiple OSes and versions, which have a patch to allow unsigned extensions is a massively more time expensive than developing a browser extension, and requires extra knowledge on the behalf of the persons responsible
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Re:Mozilla pulls Bypass Paywalls from Firefox add-ons store by Vinnl on Sunday December 02, 2018 @06:08AM (#18581847)
Luckily it's not necessary: you can still enable a flag in ESR releases that allow installation of unsigned add-ons, so that solves it for company-internal tools.
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