[Mozilla Enterprise] Mozilla To Stop Supporting Sideloaded Extensions In Firefox

[James Pearson]

Marco Gaiarin wrote:
> 
> Mandi! Luca Olivetti
>    In chel di` si favelave...
> 
>> I always put the extensions in the browser/extensions subdirectory where
>> firefox.exe is (some of them xpi, some of them unzipped), and, in my limited
>> testing, this still works with 68 esr (though when I create a user's profile
>> I set extensions.autoDisableScopes to 11).
> 
> I confirm too, 'sideloading' still works on 68 (FF and TB).

I've managed to get 'sideloading' to work with ESR 68 - just had to 
rename the extension xpi file to match its 'id' (from its manifest.json 
file)

All I need now is for the same to work with all future major ESR 
releases ...

Thanks

James Pearson