Mozilla postpones Firefox add-on signing enforcement

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Mozilla announced back in February 2015 that the decision was made to introduce add-on

signing to Firefox's extension system. The idea behind the move was to eliminate the majority

of malicious or invasive extensions by making add-on signatures mandatory.

Signatures are only generated for add-ons which go through a review process on Mozilla's

official add-ons store before they are pushed to the store. Since malicious extensions would fall

through the cracks, it should reduce a number of common issues that Firefox users face day in day out.

Mozilla's initial plan was to start showing notifications that unsigned extensions are used in Firefox 40,

to block extensions but provide an override in Firefox 41, and to make signed extensions mandatory in

Firefox 42 by removing the override option in Firefox Stable and Beta.

Mozilla postpones Firefox add-on signing enforcement (ghacks)

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Moved to Software News. Please post all software related news in Software News and hardware related and such in Technology News.

I still think that signed addons should be optional, or that about:config should have an option for it.