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Re: Can't install addons for firefox

From Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Can't install addons for firefox
Date 2019-05-06 22:20 +0200
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On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 02:10:01PM -0400, Lee wrote:
> On 5/6/19, Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> wrote:
> > 	Hi.
> >
> > On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 01:35:48PM -0400, Lee wrote:
> >> On 5/6/19, Dave Sherohman <dave@sherohman.org> wrote:
> >> > On Sun, May 05, 2019 at 07:29:55PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> No, Mozilla really screwed up.
> >> >
> >> > Understatement of the month, if not the year.  And yet, on the Mozilla
> >> > blog, all the comments are "oh, you're so awesome for working on a
> >> > weekend to fix this!", completely ignoring that there wouldn't have
> >> > been
> >> > a problem to "heroically" work all weekend to solve if they'd just done
> >> > things right (staying on top of cert expirations, not trying to funnel
> >> > everything through a single point of failure, etc.) in the first place.
> >>
> >> Is it just me, or does anyone else see the real screw up as mozilla
> >> not allowing users to override their decisions -- in this case, about
> >> an addon being "safe"?
> >
> > xpinstall.signatures.required = false
> >
> > They do allow it … for now.
> 
> Only for the ESR

Which Debian happens to be shipping. Pure coincidence, I know.

Reco

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Can't install addons for firefox Ross Boylan <rossboylan@stanfordalumni.org> - 2019-05-04 18:30 +0200
  Re: Can't install addons for firefox Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> - 2019-05-04 18:40 +0200
    Re: Can't install addons for firefox Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> - 2019-05-04 19:00 +0200
      Re: Can't install addons for firefox Ross Boylan <rossboylan@stanfordalumni.org> - 2019-05-04 20:00 +0200
        Re: Can't install addons for firefox Ross Boylan <rossboylan@stanfordalumni.org> - 2019-05-04 23:40 +0200
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      Re: Can't install addons for firefox Dave Sherohman <dave@sherohman.org> - 2019-05-05 12:00 +0200
        Re: Can't install addons for firefox Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2019-05-06 00:20 +0200
      Re: Can't install addons for firefox Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2019-05-06 22:50 +0200
  Re: Can't install addons for firefox Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2019-05-04 18:40 +0200
  Re: Can't install addons for firefox "Trevor D. Manning" <trevor.monique@bigpond.com> - 2019-05-04 19:00 +0200
  Re: Can't install addons for firefox Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2019-05-06 01:40 +0200
    Re: Can't install addons for firefox Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2019-05-06 03:30 +0200
    Re: Can't install addons for firefox Dave Sherohman <dave@sherohman.org> - 2019-05-06 09:10 +0200
      Re: Can't install addons for firefox Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2019-05-06 19:40 +0200
        Re: Can't install addons for firefox Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-05-06 20:10 +0200
          Re: Can't install addons for firefox Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2019-05-06 20:20 +0200
            Re: Can't install addons for firefox Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-05-06 22:20 +0200
  Re: Can't install addons for firefox Peter Ehlert <peter@sdi-baja.com> - 2019-05-06 23:10 +0200
    Re: Can't install addons for firefox David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2019-05-07 02:00 +0200
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