Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates

Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by vGPU on Sunday December 03, 2023 @08:56PM (#38512874)

> Unsigned extensions can be installed in the Developer Edition, Nightly, and ESR versions of Firefox, after toggling the xpinstall. signatures. required preference in about:config

So I guess not in regular?

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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by Wowfunhappy on Sunday December 03, 2023 @09:04PM (#38512924)

Exactly, not in regular, in those builds the xpinstall flag is ignored.

A lot of people recommend switching to Developer Edition to use unsigned extensions, but that's aligned to the Beta update channel. There's no way to get stable releases + unsigned extensions.

Whatever the security argument, I find this completely antithetical to user freedom, especially given that it's allowed in Chrome! I just can't believe that Mozilla is the one restricting their own users.

(It's also news to me that unsigned extensions can be enabled in ESR, I thought it was just Nightly and Developer. That's nice I guess.)

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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by vGPU on Sunday December 03, 2023 @11:14PM (#38513683)

Agreed, it’s definitely not in line with their stated philosophy. Sadly, Mozilla has been drifting away from it more and more lately.

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