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Re:All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate... by lvh on Friday May 03, 2019 @11:56PM (#19824346)
Most people do not know what a manifest.json is or what sort of permissions they're handing to a random WebExtension.

If you want your freedom from reviewed extensions: fine, get an unbranded Firefox, or Developer edition, and you get that.

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Re:All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate... by Wowfunhappy on Saturday May 04, 2019 @10:58AM (#19826819)
A Developer Edition is unstable, so I wouldn’t want to use that.

If you can recommend an fork that allows extension sideloading but is kept up to date, please do so, I’ve been looking...

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Re:All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate... by Wowfunhappy on Saturday May 04, 2019 @11:20AM (#19826972)
Okay, figured it out. Thank you for giving me the search term "Unbranded Firefox"—I didn't realize this referred to something specific.

Unbranded Firefox is actually a specific version of Firefox distributed by Mozilla, which allows you to disable extension signing requirements. I am very glad to see that they offer this, and I will be using it from now on.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Extension_Signing#Unbranded...

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