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>Letting users install and run unmaintained software is dangerous.

Which is... exactly what Windows and Linux still do, rightly.

>And they'll blame the browser for that, and rightfully so.

Not at all rightfully so. Moreover the supposed security gain from this is absurd. So a user can't accidentally install a malicious extension... but they can install malicious software. Which, being that it has full access to the system, could patch Firefox if it liked to disable the signing check.

I won't use a browser which implements restrictive code signing practices.




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