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Can you install your own personal extensions without getting permission from Mozilla yet? Or are they still banning that? Because that change drove me away from Firefox.


You mean inatalling from local files? This isn't ever going away, we have to test what we develop somehow


It already went away, you need a special Firefox version to do that (that's the somehow part)


This is just flat out wrong. I am on regular Firefox and can install extensions from files.

See: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/find-and-install-add-on... and look under "How do I find and install add-ons?" > "For Advanced User"


Nope

> You can also install a signed add-on from a file

This means that unlike Chrome Firefox doesn't support the simple case of downloading an extension repo, tweaking a few things, and loading it




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