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Mozilla Firefox Blocks Add-Ons to Circumvent Russia Censorship (theintercept.com)
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[-] vox@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 months ago

firefox can install extensions outside of mozilla add-ons

release builds cannot and all extensions not signed by Mozilla will refuse to install

[-] freeman@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago

The addons on the store are signed and you can install them from an xpi file in regular Firefox.

Try it.

[-] RandomGen1@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

On mobile that may be the case, but on desktop you can definitely install extensions not signed by Mozilla

[-] vox@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

only until restart.
to load unsigned extensions persistently, you must use nightly or developer edition and enable a hidden config flag.

[-] RandomGen1@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

Without a nightly or dev version I'm running bypass paywalls clean from github, persistently on the latest Firefox desktop release. I do not believe it's signed by Mozilla, but I could be wrong

[-] vox@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 months ago

[-] RandomGen1@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

Only reasonable explanation I can come up with is that I installed it before this requirement was made and my install is grandfathered in

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