Bug#808228: iceweasel disables unsigned addons installed via xul-ext packages

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Thu 2015-12-17 18:44:26 -0500, Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 06:29:35PM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>> On Thu 2015-12-17 07:53:43 -0500, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
>> 
>> > xpinstall.signatures.required is set to true here.
>> >
>> > I set to false for now in order to use the addons again. This works.
>> 
>> fwiw, i also needed to set xpinstall.whitelist.required to false to use
>> the system-installed addons on iceweasel 43.0.
>
> Can you both check what happens with a new profile? This might be an
> issue on upgrade, but not on fresh install.

I can confirm that a with a new profile, the system-installed extensions
are functional.  The problem i had was with an existing (upgraded)
profile.

    --dkg