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Firefox 42 will not allow unsigned extensions

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288 points fernandotakai | 4 comments | 11 Aug 15 03:51 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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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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1. kragen ◴[11 Aug 15 06:18 UTC] No.10039373[source]▶
In theory, but that will be very difficult.
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2. ekianjo ◴[11 Aug 15 06:22 UTC] No.10039382[source]▶
How about Pale Moon ?
3. 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?
4. rockdoe ◴[11 Aug 15 13:42 UTC] No.10040955[source]▶
It's trivial.