"What are my options if I want to install unsigned extensions in Firefox?
The Developer Edition and Nightly versions of Firefox will have a setting to disable signature checks. There will also be special unbranded versions of Release and Beta that will have this setting, so that add-on developers can work on their add-ons without having to sign every build."
If you want to run a custom AMO I'm assuming you're in a corporate environment or something like that where you can control what browser gets installed on people's machines.
https://addons.mozilla.org is an integral part of Firefox, if you set it up with an alternative you're effectively making your own fork.
It's not an integral part of Firefox, though. You can install add-ons without it by just clicking a link on any page that leads to an XPI, same as how AMO behaves.
And no, I'm not in a corporate environment. I'm talking about decentralization.
Dev Edition is not less customizable... its just Firefox with a new theme and more bleeding edge dev tools which you should be using to develop addons anyway.