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		Wowfunhappy 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A brief history of code signing at Mozilla The biggest issue with the unbranded builds is that there are no automatic updates. Mind, it would probably be easier to write your own autoupdater than to runtime patch the signature check in official Firefox...

jaharios 8 months ago [–]

Actually I had set a policy to block automatic updates. Sometimes they break things, and having a profile backup before updating to roll back in case of breakage is a must. So it is a win win for me.

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