Please stop promoting snap. I and a lot of people are not going to use it. Snap is not unix-wayish, it is Windows-bloated-wayish. A big step back and complete garbage. The same way flatpak and appimage and docker- container-as-a-unit-of-software are.
I have almost created a script that patches the binary installation in order to workaround Mozilla's sabotage (I have never tested that the method works though, but I guess it should). When finished, I gonna create a binary package with triggers to patch firefox on installation. The only missing ingridient is the python library for editing zip archive in place (because I don't want to unpack and repack the whole archive just to patch 1 small JS file). Since it is a complex task, I just followed the way of creating a ctypes-based bindings for a C library for manipulating zip archives. It is here https://github.com/KOLANICH-libs/libzip.py in an unfinished unworking state (well, ctypes part works, but we need to wrap it properly in an interface similar to ZipArchive to be a kinda drop-in replacement, or maybe even promote it into the stdlib). I currently have no time to work on it. Help is welcome. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1937343 Title: FireFox 90 unable to install unsigned webextensions Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Ubuntu 18.04 FireFox 90.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Steps: - Set xpinstall.signatures.required to FALSE in about:config - Attempt to install UNSIGNED extension from file (Install Add-on From File...) in about:addons Expected: - FireFox warns about unverified add-on but ALLOWS installation. Actual result: - FireFox prevents the installation. Installing unsigned extensions used to work on all FireFox versions before 90. Related question https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/698053 There appears to be at least one other affected person https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/ootacl/unverified_addon_not_working_anymore_since/ To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1937343/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
