Looking for help here. I created a new Firefox profile and wanted to load the Bypass Paywalls Clean Add-on/Extension from the XPI file. So I did what I’ve always done and got the message displayed above.
Then I went into about:config and changed both xpinstall.whitelist.required and xpinstall.signatures.required to false. Fully exited and restarted the browser but still, no dice.
Anyone know how to fix this?
SOLUTION: go to extensions.blocklist.enabled and turn it to false
If they didn’t have safeguarding in place, I’d be more worried. As with all things Firefox, it can be overridden.
“This isn’t safe” is very different from “I’ve arbitrarily decided you shouldn’t be able to use that”
Except it isn’t arbitrary, as a US company they are forced to remove it because of the DMCA
It’s not something they’re hosting, what do you mean forced to remove it
they are, the addon is hosted on addons.mozilla.org, and by default forefox doesnt allow extensioms not on there for security reasons
That doesn’t at all look like what’s happening in the above image. It obviously isn’t being installed from addons.mozilla.org because they wouldn’t be hosting it. And the pop-up says it can’t be installed because it “violates Mozilla’s policies” not due to security issues or because it’s not from their extensions gallery.
Yeah, it can technically be served from a button in another website, but it has to go through mozilla for firefox to accept to install it, I did misspeak in my original comment.
??? None of this has anything to do with anything mozilla runs. Mozilla has nothing to do with me installing an extension from a file. This is like a car manufacturer preventing you from bringing library books into a car you bought.
Except the library book won’t record all your conversations in the car and where you go.
Think of how stupid the average user is, and how easy it would be to get them to install any random extension from a malware site.
I genuinely think it’s reasonable to prevent users from installing non-mozilla approved extensions unless they go in about:config.
A blocklist for malware would be safeguarding. But you can’t claim this is “safeguarding” against… completely safe software?
And it’s not exactly easily overridden, otherwise this post wouldn’t exist.
Sadly, there a few annoying things in Firefox which absolutely are not overridable at all. Firefox is heckin’ awesome, but this just ain’t true.
It’s an unverified extension and an about:config variable
Sure is
It is a safequard against getting sued.
The addon is in their store after all.