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

  • Norah (pup/it/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    13 hours ago

    That doesn’t at all look like what’s happening in the above image. It obviously isn’t being installed from addons.mozilla.org because they wouldn’t be hosting it. And the pop-up says it can’t be installed because it “violates Mozilla’s policies” not due to security issues or because it’s not from their extensions gallery.

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      10 hours ago

      Yeah, it can technically be served from a button in another website, but it has to go through mozilla for firefox to accept to install it, I did misspeak in my original comment.

      • pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        52 minutes ago

        ??? None of this has anything to do with anything mozilla runs. Mozilla has nothing to do with me installing an extension from a file. This is like a car manufacturer preventing you from bringing library books into a car you bought.