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kwk1 on Nov 1, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Firefox to Discontinue Sideloaded Extensions

How will this affect extensions packaged in Linux distributions, e.g. Debian's webext-* packages. I for one want to be able to do stuff like `sudo apt install firefox webext-ublock-origin` and have all the users on the system have this extension installed and enabled.

ripdog on Nov 1, 2019 [–]

Debian will need to patch Firefox for this to continue to work.

dessant on Nov 1, 2019 | [–]

I think Debian already compiles Firefox with a flag to allow unsigned extensions, but this may require further changes.

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