Bill Phillips wrote:
Isn't that a wee bit, um, fascisitic of Mozilla? Shouldn't they at least make it user-controllable?
Quoting the blog article:
For extensions that will never be publicly distributed and will never leave an internal network, there will be a third option. We’ll have more details available on this in the near future.
and
Installation of unsigned extensions will still be possible on Nightly and Developer Edition, as well as special, unbranded builds of Release and Beta that will be available mainly for developers testing their extensions.
But the article also says:
An easy solution would be to force all developers to distribute their extensions through AMO, like what Google does for Chrome extensions. However, we believe that forcing all installs through our distribution channel is an unnecessary constraint.
which strikes me as incompatible with Free Software, software users are allowed to run, modify, and share. Anyone who wants to could get a copy of Firefox, remove the signature checking code, and distribute their variant.
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