Firefox 42 will not allow unsigned extensions

At this point I don't think I'll ever return to using firefox after the mountain of stupid shit mozilla has pulled in the last ~2 years.

I share your sentiment, but Google Chrome is better only in terms of performance [1], it fares worse in both privacy and extensibility (no ad blockers/addons on mobile Chrome).

For people like me, who want:

* a free software browser

* android/desktop sync

* adblock and other addons

it is pretty much a binary choice between two evils.

[1]: Possibly, of course -- but that is a debate for another time.

The nice thing is that they're doing for "security", although they're absolutely fine pulling insane amounts of crap into their browser to improve the "web experience" and incidentally increasing the attack surface [which is how you get most of the malware actually].