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
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.