Re: Case against Firefox in FESCo

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On 01/07/2016 09:46 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 08:33:37AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 8:29 AM, Naheem Zaffar
>> <naheemzaffar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> ESR will only delay the problem.
>>> 
>>> Can the Fedora build add a secodary key to accept signed
>>> extensions?
>> 
>> This is one of the suggested solutions, but it is not currently 
>> implemented upstream.
>> 
>>> AFAIK the long term plan is todeprecate the current method of
>>> extensions in favour of a more browser agnostic approach.
>> 
>> Correct.
> 
> Is it just me, or does it seem odd to take Mozilla to task for
> doing something with their (relatively much larger) ecosystem we
> also endeavor to do with Fedora's?
> 

Could you explain what you mean? Mozilla's intent is lock-in: they're
providing exactly one source from which you can retrieve extensions.
With Fedora, we do signature signing for trust reasons, but you are
always offered a way to bypass that (or add your own keys, etc.)
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