On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 3:43 PM, Pete Boyd <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 05/04/2016 17:54, Kaply Consulting wrote:
> > It's because there are different certificates right now for sideloaded
> > and not sideloaded extensions.
> >
> > To avoid the warning, when you submit to AMO check the "this add-on will
> > be sideloaded" box.
> >
> > This distinction will be going away in Firefox 46.
>
> How does this help those of us who are unpacking and copying other
> peoples' extensions to Mozilla Firefox\browser\extensions\? I have
> Adblock Plus, Zotero and Zotero LibreOffice Integration all blocked.
>

It should allow those extensions to work in those locations now.

The certificate that they are signed with by default was not a "sideload"
certificate. So it didn't allow them to be placed in those locations.

This change should allow that.


> Having said that, Firefox's own ChatZilla and Places Maintenance are
> also blocked, so does that make mine a different issue?
>
> xpinstall.signatures.required=false makes the issue go away for all the
> above add-ons.
>

Nope, it would be the same issue. This is one of the reasons the
certificate distinction was problematic and is going away.

Mike



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>
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