Granted, Mozilla's had their own issues and some apps / sites may have become as dependent on Chrome as sites were on IE way back when. But given Google's flexing their control muscles over the last few years, a clean break is probably the better long term solution.
1 - https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Extension_Signing#Unbranded...
Then I have the exact same problem when support dies in the coming months though.
> or the unbranded builds [1]
Interesting, so does this mean that if I want stable builds, I'd have to manually update to the exact unbranded counterpart of that stable version?
> I'm curious what your concerns are with the unlisted extensions option from Mozilla?
I guess because I really don't see what business they have forcing me to upload my extensions to their servers? Same reason why people don't like uploading Chrome stuff to Google servers?
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Edit:
I'm trying out the unbranded builds and running into a problem when I try to use my existing profile: disabling signature checking doesn't work. However, it works on a fresh profile. Not sure what the problem is...
user_pref("extensions.databaseSchema", 27);
user_pref("extensions.e10s.rollout.policy", "50allmpc");
Edit:
For anyone else trying to auto-obtain the latest stable Firefox nightly, here's a hacky command (change for your OS as needed):
curl -s "https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Extension_Signing" | sed -n "0,/Windows 64-bit Installer/{s/.*href=\"\\(https:[^\"]*\\.zip\\)\">Windows 64-bit Installer<.*/\\1/p}"It's a temporary hack, but you might also want to look at temporarily loading extensions with about:debugging, this works even in official release.
Good news! Even Firefox ESR 60 always you to disable the mandatory signature checks by setting the "xpinstall.signatures.required" pref = false. The Mozilla add-on wiki was a little unclear, so I just manually verified that the "xpinstall.signatures.required" pref works correctly in Firefox ESR 60. :)
> Yes, I want Firefox stable. I don't want to run a buggy browser.
? Is the developer edition running the same code as stable?
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/04/simplifying-firefox-releas... (edit for better link)