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[–] RandomGen1@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

On mobile that may be the case, but on desktop you can definitely install extensions not signed by Mozilla

[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

only until restart.
to load unsigned extensions persistently, you must use nightly or developer edition and enable a hidden config flag.

[–] RandomGen1@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Without a nightly or dev version I'm running bypass paywalls clean from github, persistently on the latest Firefox desktop release. I do not believe it's signed by Mozilla, but I could be wrong

[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] RandomGen1@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

Only reasonable explanation I can come up with is that I installed it before this requirement was made and my install is grandfathered in