1855207 - https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/74.0/releasenotes/ : Please mention that sideloading is discontinued

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(WebExtensions :: Untriaged, enhancement)

Description

[David Hedlund]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/118.0

Steps to reproduce:

"Starting in Firefox 73, it will no longer be possible to have an extension be automatically installed as part of another application install. See the Add-ons Blog for more information." - https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/publish/distribute-sideloading/

Actual results:

Read the text

Expected results:

Please mention that installation using the standard extension folders is not longer possible in https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/73.0/releasenotes/

Comment 1

[David Hedlund]

This was added to the Thunderbird 78 release notes: "**As of version 78.0, "sideloaded" extensions are no longer supported. Enterprise administrators can deploy extensions using policies." - https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/78.0/releasenotes/

That text can be copied to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/73.0/releasenotes/

Comment 2

[David Hedlund]

"Sideloading will stop being supported in Firefox version 74" - https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/10/31/firefox-to-discontinue-sideloaded-extensions/

Please add this to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/74.0/releasenotes/

Comment 3

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'WebExtensions::Untriaged' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 4

[Alex Cornestean]

Hello,

It appears that what you are proposing is an enhancement instead of a defect. I’ll mark the issue accordingly.

Thank you !

Comment 5

[Luca Greco [:rpl] [:luca] [:lgreco]]

Hi Ryan, would it be possible and worth updating release notes for such a older Firefox version to add an explicit note about that in the Firefox version where that change in behavior was introduced?

Comment 6

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

The 74.0 release notes already have this:

Add-ons installed by external applications can now be removed using the Add-ons Manager (about:addons). Going forward, only users can install add-ons; they cannot be installed by an application.

I believe that's referencing the same change? I'm not feeling super inclined to add another note to an almost 3 year old release essentially providing the same information.