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.
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 is a safequard against getting sued.
The addon is in their store after all.
It’s an unverified extension and an about:config variable