Hi everybody, and first of all thanks to our maintainer for quickly fixing this very annoying bug.
On Sun, 5 May 2019 12:50:47 -0700 Larry Doolittle <la...@doolittle.boa.org> wrote: > Alexis Murzeau <amub...@gmail.com> wrote: > > See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19826903 > > Which instructs people to install > https://storage.googleapis.com/moz-fx-normandy-prod-addons/extensions/hotfix-update-xpi-intermediate%40mozilla.com-1.0.2-signed.xpi > > [...] While the bug is now fixed, I wanted to record a more generally applicable solution that saved me yesterday (you never know, it could happen again). On a single-user system, and if you are willing to manage extensions updates manually, you can sidestep the signature checks by moving your extensions to "/usr/share/mozilla/extensions/{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}" (you need root for that, which is arguably a good thing). # cd "/usr/share/mozilla/extensions/{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}" # mv -i $FF_PROFILE/extensions/*.xpi . # chown root.root *.xpi # chmod a+r *.xpi Philosophical conclusion: 1) all DRM, however well-meaning, is user-unfriendly 2) and Debian is right to provide a way around it 3) which should be unashamedly documented. Cheers, Baptiste
