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by mbrownnyc 3970 days ago
To note, there is a client-side workaround that allows whitelisting of ALL unsigned extensions (they might consider creating a whitelist of UUIDs or something "humans" can handle like the name of an extension). I was able to change the following and uBlock and Ghostery immediately started working in the "Aurora" build: go to about:config ; set xpinstall.signatures.required = false
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You didn't read the linked article. They say that the option will be available in Firefox 41, but Firefox 42 will have no such override.
Thanks for pointing that out. Too bad.