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