[Project_owners] AMO vs. mozdev was: Awaiting extension upgrade approval

[Godmar Back]

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:22 PM, John Woods <johnrw at gmail.com> wrote:
> I should also add that it seems that if something is not signed...
> Firefox will disable any update checking. (Whaaaaaaaaat!)
>
> I only caught that message once in my testing of a compatibility release...
> so I am still not sure of what criteria needs to pass... but I think
> it was upgrade
> checking becoming disabled without a signed xpi.
>

No, the xpi does not need to be signed.
FF3.0 only requires that update.rdf is either signed or that it's
provided via https://, as it would be when hosting on amo.

Check the archives of this mailing list for details.

 - Godmar