Originally posted by SystemCrasher
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As for signed extensions, they got fed up with crapware companies exploiting their installers' privileged access to the host system to circumvent user permission prompting by patching Firefox's configuration. Yes, I dislike the solution they chose and always stay on Developer Edition, which will keep the check optional, but I can certainly see where they're coming from. (The only real way to make it prohibitive for crapware is to hard-code the check so the crapware would have to include binary patches for major Firefox releases, at which point it would be too virus-like for malware scanner companies to ignore.)
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