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Firefox 42 will not allow unsigned extensions

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288 points fernandotakai | 9 comments | 11 Aug 15 03:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.646s | source | bottom
1. ekianjo ◴[11 Aug 15 06:09 UTC] No.10039351[source]▶
It should still possible to fork Firefox and remove this requirement, right ?
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2. kragen ◴[11 Aug 15 06:18 UTC] No.10039373[source]▶
In theory, but that will be very difficult.
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3. ekianjo ◴[11 Aug 15 06:22 UTC] No.10039382[source]▶
How about Pale Moon ?
4. a3_nm ◴[11 Aug 15 08:22 UTC] No.10039684[source]▶
It's not really a full fork, but I'm fairly confident that Iceweasel, the patched and no-branding Firefox that ships with Debian, will not have this problem.

(So as I Debian user I don't really care, but it worries me slightly for the future of Mozilla.)

5. Dylan16807 ◴[11 Aug 15 10:42 UTC] No.10040089[source]▶
Difficult how? Even though Mozilla is going to providing builds of just such a fork themselves? Is it particularly hard to build firefox?
6. wsha ◴[11 Aug 15 10:51 UTC] No.10040123[source]▶
Mozilla has said that this requirement is set by one flag at build time, so building a version without this requirement should not be any more difficult than just compiling Firefox I have never done that, but I think it's slightly non-trivial. The hardest part though would be distributing the fork though, so a Linux distribution like Debian mentioned this change as others have mentioned would be one way to build a popular fork without this requirement.
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7. rockdoe ◴[11 Aug 15 13:42 UTC] No.10040955[source]▶
It's trivial.
8. tanderson92 ◴[11 Aug 15 14:28 UTC] No.10041280[source]▶
It's nontrivial, but others have worked out the details:

[1]: https://git.exherbo.org/desktop.git/tree/packages/net-www/fi...

[2]: https://git.exherbo.org/desktop.git/tree/exlibs/mozilla.exli...

9. soapdog ◴[11 Aug 15 14:44 UTC] No.10041415[source]▶
you don't need to fork. There are four versions without requirement: nightly, dev edition, unbranded stable and unbranded beta. What more do you want?