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Why disabling add-ons in Firefox 43? I thought that was the benifit of open source? I am willing to take responsability for all add-ons I add to my system

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Why does Mozilla have to "verify" and add-on before allowing it to work? I have been using some add-ons that are now disabled due to this. I take responsibility for everything I load to my system. By making developers verify there work with "big brother" it defeats the purpose of open source!!

If you continue down the current path, you may as well just turn yourselves over to Microsoft, and become Internet Explorer!!!

The latest updates to Firefox are ruining the best features of Firefox!

Why does Mozilla have to "verify" and add-on before allowing it to work? I have been using some add-ons that are now disabled due to this. I take responsibility for everything I load to my system. By making developers verify there work with "big brother" it defeats the purpose of open source!! If you continue down the current path, you may as well just turn yourselves over to Microsoft, and become Internet Explorer!!! The latest updates to Firefox are ruining the best features of Firefox!

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It's a new security feature (making many of us insecure)

Enter about:config into your Firefox address bar Click the I'll be careful button Find xpinstall.signatures.required in the list Right click the preference Select Toggle until the value is false

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It's a new security feature (making many of us insecure)

Enter about:config into your Firefox address bar Click the I'll be careful button Find xpinstall.signatures.required in the list Right click the preference Select Toggle until the value is false

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Note: The xpinstall.signatures.required is now going to be compatible thru the Firefox 46.0 version. https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2016/01/22/add-on-signing-update/

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Addons/Extension_Signing#Timeline


That will work now, but when Firefox 44 is released on Jan 26, 2016 that pref won't do you any good. Please see this. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-on-signing-in-firefox

xpinstall.signatures.required is a temporary pref for Firefox 43 only. The developers of your unsigned add-ons will need to get them signed before Firefox 44 is released, or they'll be disabled again with no fall-back as with Firefox 43. The user "taking responsibility" just doesn't sit well with Mozilla; add-ons are either signed or they'll be disabled, or not allowed to be installed.

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That will work now, but when Firefox 44 is released on Jan 26, 2016 that pref won't do you any good. Please see this. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-on-signing-in-firefox xpinstall.signatures.required is a temporary pref for Firefox 43 only. The developers of your unsigned add-ons will need to get them signed before Firefox 44 is released, or they'll be disabled again with no fall-back as with Firefox 43. The user "taking responsibility" just doesn't sit well with Mozilla; add-ons are either signed or they'll be disabled, or not allowed to be installed.


Thanks for the information! I still think it is BS that Mozilla, wants this much control over what "used to be" the best browser out there.