On Fri, 17 Nov 2017 19:53:43 +0100, Randy Barlow wrote:
> On 11/16/2017 11:50 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > (I don't understand why we package Firefox addons at all, it seems like
> > a silly idea. But oh well.)
> 
> I personally like the idea of packaging addons, for the same reasons I
> like getting Firefox from Fedora rather than directly from Mozilla. Some
> example benefits are that it ensures the license is free (I don't know
> whether Mozilla enforces licenses to be free or not, but I assume they
> do not), and that the plugin came from known sources.

And there is no warning if you click in firefox-57.0-2.fc27.x86_64 on any
add-on that it is installing a non-Fedora-signed add-on.

(Then there is also "Update Add-ons Automatically" turned on by default but
I could not verify whether it really applies on rpm-installed add-ons or not.)


Jan
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