FWIW, I received questions about this via private email and phone calls from two people working on extensions that support their products. Their extensions sit in the review queue with not chance of getting through it before the signing requirement kicks in. This puts them into a situation where their only reasonable course of action is to advise their users to switch browsers.
On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 10:31 AM, David Rajchenbach-Teller < [email protected]> wrote: > And didn't receive any reply, afaict. > > On 25/11/15 10:30, Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 10:14:09AM +0100, David Rajchenbach-Teller wrote: > >> I admit I have followed extension signing/scanning only very remotely, > >> but Dan Stillman has a number of good points: > >> > >> > http://danstillman.com/2015/11/23/firefox-extension-scanning-is-security-theater > >> > >> Could someone who's actually involved in this feature provide an answer? > > > > As mentioned in the blog post, he posted an abridged version to > > firefox-dev. > > > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > > dev-platform mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
