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

[Shivanand Sharma / Varun]

in reply to Douglas:

>>Does anyone know if it would be possible to create an extension that would
add
mozdev.org as a trusted source in Firefox?

Is it just a matter of adding the site to options > security > exception >
allowed sites? We are just trying to get rid of the browser warning bar at
the top of the screen, right?

Regards
Shivanand Sharma

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:59 PM, John Woods <johnrw at gmail.com> wrote:

> Innovation!
> A step in the right direction.
>
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Douglas E. Warner <silfreed at silfreed.net>
> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 08 July 2008 12:53:23 John Woods wrote:
> >> It has no scarry scarry messages about bad extensions... like mozdev
> >> gets...
> >>
> >> ie it is whitelisted by default... mozdev is not.
> >
> > About this; Mozdev *does* provide a mechanism for secure installs and
> updates
> > now, but we still get the initial warning about installing an extension
> from
> > an untrusted host.
> >
> > Does anyone know if it would be possible to create an extension that
> would add
> > mozdev.org as a trusted source in Firefox?  We could host this on AMO so
> > extension developers on Mozdev would only need to require this extension
> > before doing installs from Mozdev.org
> >
> > If the warning about installing from Mozdev was removed the barrier for
> new
> > users would be greatly reduced.
> >
> > -Doug
> >
> > --
> > Douglas E. Warner    <silfreed at silfreed.net>    Site Developer
> > Mozdev.org           http://www.mozdev.org
> >
> >
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