On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Chris Coulson <chrisccoul...@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On 10/08/15 22:21, Xavier Guillot wrote: > > Hi, > > I can't answer to this specific question, but as an user with Firefox as > default browser on Ubuntu 15.04 Desktop, if those addons are kept, perhaps > they need to be signed. > > Today when I updated to the latest FF Nightly 42.0a1 on the daily ppa, > Mozilla activated the obligation to use only officially signed extensions: > https://support.mozilla.org/fr/kb/add-on-signing-in-firefox > > All 3 Ubuntu addons were automatically desactivated. > > On the nightly version, there is an option in About:config to restore the > old behavior (xpinstall.signatures.required set to false), but on future > normal and beta versions of Firefox, it will not be possible anymore > normally. > > Even if the addons are provided directly in the packages and not on > Mozilla site, it is still also possible to validate them. > > Best regards, > > Xavier > > > Ubufox was signed a few weeks ago and will be shipped with the Firefox 40 > update tomorrow. However, it's only been through preliminary review, and > future Firefox versions disable side-loaded addons that haven't had a full > review. > > I'm not sure about the status of the other addons (cc'ing dbarth). > Yup, we've started submitting webapps extensions as well, starting with the main xul-ext-websites-integration. David
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