Am 25.11.2015 um 20:16 schrieb Jeff Gilbert: > On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 3:16 AM, Till Schneidereit > <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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. >> > Is it just me, or does this sounds completely unacceptable. Sloughing > more users? Things like this are why it's hard not to be cynical.
It's not just you. Reading the blog post made me think that extension signing is complete nonsense and we should stop it now. This will only break one of Firefox' best features for nothing. And especially bad was it to blacklist the proof-of-concept exploit, instead of addressing the actual problem. Best regards Thomas > > I doubt anyone is going to switch to Firefox because our extension > signing is safe. (though I do think we should have some form of > signing) But they will gladly switch away when anything breaks, > particularly when we reduce the activation energy needed to switch: If > their extension won't work in new Firefox, it doesn't matter so much > that they won't have that extension in, say, Chrome. > _______________________________________________ > 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
