Re: (forw) [DNG] Life After Firefox 56

Deirdre Saoirse Moen <[email protected]>
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> On Nightly and Developer Edition builds, as well as unbranded builds.
> _And_, turns out, ESR releases (see below, and thank you for raising
> that).
> 
> In fairness, there may be substantial changes as this gets rolled out.

In conversations today and yesterday, I pointed out that I liked Apple’s approach (before it had a mandatory charge) of signing a developer key and letting that be enough to sign all the extensions from the developer.

Then I remembered something that Mozilla may be using as an object lesson here, specifically the case of the Apple/Dash controversy where a developer purportedly paid for a relative’s developer account, and one or more of those accounts were involved in app rating manipulation.

http://daringfireball.net/2016/10/apple_dash_controversy

I support code signing, but I’m not convinced that certifying the developer (who then signs the app) is a worse approach than signing each app. The latter sounds quite a bit more resource intensive for Mozilla.

Deirdre
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