On 03/06/2015 10:17 PM, David E. Ross wrote:
On 3/6/2015 5:19 PM, WaltS48 wrote:
On 03/06/2015 07:47 PM, David E. Ross wrote:
On 3/6/2015 10:42 AM, Rick Merrill wrote:
Desiree wrote on 02/13/2015 1:59 AM:
On 2/12/2015 9:05 AM, David E. Ross wrote:
According to
<https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/02/10/extension-signing-safer-experience/>,
Firefox will no longer allow extensions to be installed unless signed by
Mozilla. Users will have NO option to allow an unsigned extension to be
installed. That is, signatures by Mozilla will be mandatory.
Will this also be implemented in SeaMonkey?
The blog states this will NOT be implemented for SeaMonkey.
I stunned that Mozilla is doing this. This is political and could be the death
of Fx.
I can understand that some users love extensions, but I think security is the
reason
that this is being done, and so I am much in favor of it.
Before I retired, I had a 41-year career in software, first programming
and then testing. I developed approximately 25% of the specifications
for a military software project that eventually cost about $400,000,000.
I was called out of the shower (at home, getting ready for bed) to take
a phone call from a satellite launch facility to explain how to use the
command and control software for a space satellite that was within a
hour of launch. I taught end-users about the mathematics underlying
their software. I p[roved that a new software package failed to
implement the customer's requirements, delaying deployment about 6
months while the package was rewritten.
I do not need or want some developer who was not yet born when I started
my career imposing unwanted protection on me.
How is a developer imposing unwanted protection, when they are
automatically scanning something an extension developer created, that
may contain malicious code that will harm your system, then signing it
if it passes review that it does not contain any malicious code and
allowing it to be installed in your Firefox?
I have extensions that do exactly what I want. They were NOT obtained
from addons.mozilla.org (AMO), primarily because their developers do not
want to deal with AMO's bureaucracy. The blocking of unsigned
extensions will block me from obtaining future new extensions and
extension updates, without any option to override the blocking. This is
why the "protection" is unwanted.
You are just one user out of millions.
--
Kubuntu 14.10 | KDE 4.14.1 | Thunderbird 38.0a2(Earlybird)
[Coexist - Understanding Across Divides](https://www.coexist.org/)
Proofreader wanted - apply online. ;)
_______________________________________________
support-seamonkey mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
