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drdaeman on Oct 1, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Gorhill pulls uBlock Origin Lite from Firefox stor...

You must be using either the Developer Edition, ESR, nightly or some unbranded version. Vanilla Firefox doesn’t allow to install unsigned extensions permanently.

3np on Oct 2, 2024 [–]

As of recentlyish, I noticed this is not an option on ESR, either. Only Nightly and Dev.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Extension_Signing#FAQ

The FAQ says that in ESR, xpinstall.signatures.required should be respected but this is out of date IME (ESR 115).

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