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Realy upset about changes! The settings should NOT be burried the way you did that. If I allow security risks or not is MY decision. Working extensions back!!!

Soonchangingbrowser
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Mozilla support guys, tell the programmers to do better work! I am realy NOT interested to bother at every update if my addons work any more or not. KEEP THEM RUNNING! I am mature enough to decide if I want them or not. The creators of them are mature enough to decide if they need to be updated or not. If there is any silly user who installs viruses or anything harmful, then it is a problem for him/her and their computers. If there is a silly creator who does not update their extensions to meet compatibility that is the problem of him/her and their customers. NOT YOUR BUSINESS. Last changes caused a big mess. I DO NOT believe that all those addons are not functional more. As I positively know they are OK. But now you even burried the settings deep to about:config, hiding theme under some warning and silly button "I promisse, i will be careful". We are not interested in such silliness, I believe most of us. Me for sure not! Now I will have to devote my time to dig in about:config and find the stuff there and yes, possibly when overlooking something I may break something. Because there is simply NO button like: "Yes, activate that addon on my own risk". You should not disable a single one of them! There is an option for anyone to disable the whole browser if you do that continuously. I feel to be enough experienced to set thing back to meet my needs but I simply DO NOT HAVE time for that. Is it better for you when people will stick with old versions of your browser and then switch totaly to something new? Then keep doing this.

Mozilla support guys, tell the programmers to do better work! I am realy NOT interested to bother at every update if my addons work any more or not. KEEP THEM RUNNING! I am mature enough to decide if I want them or not. The creators of them are mature enough to decide if they need to be updated or not. If there is any silly user who installs viruses or anything harmful, then it is a problem for him/her and their computers. If there is a silly creator who does not update their extensions to meet compatibility that is the problem of him/her and their customers. NOT YOUR BUSINESS. Last changes caused a big mess. I DO NOT believe that all those addons are not functional more. As I positively know they are OK. But now you even burried the settings deep to about:config, hiding theme under some warning and silly button "I promisse, i will be careful". We are not interested in such silliness, I believe most of us. Me for sure not! Now I will have to devote my time to dig in about:config and find the stuff there and yes, possibly when overlooking something I may break something. Because there is simply NO button like: "Yes, activate that addon on my own risk". You should not disable a single one of them! There is an option for anyone to disable the whole browser if you do that continuously. I feel to be enough experienced to set thing back to meet my needs but I simply DO NOT HAVE time for that. Is it better for you when people will stick with old versions of your browser and then switch totaly to something new? Then keep doing this.

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the-edmeister
the-edmeister
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Please provide your feedback to Mozilla here: https://input.mozilla.org/en-US/feedback

The the support contributors who come her to provide support are just other Firefox users. No one here works for Mozilla. We have no control over what Mozilla does with Firefox. And since Mozilla owns Firefox they have the right to determine what features it has or doesn't have; thus whether they will allow unsigned extensions to be installed is their business.

Mozilla has it very clear that "signing" of extensions is what they are going to do with Firefox. But they also have posted that there will be an unbranded version of "Firefox" which won't have the "signing" feature. I wouldn't expect that unbranded version to be available until the RC (Release Candidate) stage in the the week before Firefox 44 is released, or maybe once Firefox 44 is actually Released on Jan 26th. And I wouldn't expect the unbranded version to be easy to find either. It will probably be placed on the Releases server, so users will need a bit of help finding it - no public announcement and no webpage with links to it either. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Addons/Extension_Signing