Is Anyone Currently Using Cynwoody's FR Posting Form Enhancer and Tree Viewer with Firefox? (Vanity)

Self | 03/19/25 | Self

[TomGuy]

I had the same issue in Firefox.

One solution is to edit the Firefox config:

On a blank Firefox webpage, type into the address bar: about:config.

Search for xpinstall.signatures.required true

Change to xpinstall.signatures.required false

[daniel1212]

Presuming cynwoody would agree with enabling his work to still be available then I have also uploaded it, unchanged (with the hope that it will only be used for what is good in God’s sight): https://peacebyjesus.net/cynwoodyFRpostfEnhancer.xpi

[KevinB]

Change to xpinstall.signatures.required false

I tried that and it did not work for me. Installing the updated extension files by Pollard and linMcHlp linked in post 28 is the only thing that worked.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Thanks. But the issue was that I was trying to update using the Software Manager and it showed no update to FF. Using the Synaptic Package manager, I was able to update to 136.x.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Thanks. I’ll keep this handy as a last resort.

[Openurmind]

OK, good. If either of those repositories allowed it to be installed then it should be openly reviewed and audited for security already.

Something interesting I found out about Mint when I first got it was that the default install of FF it came boxed with was a “tuned” and more secure version of FF. It was unique to Mint. But as soon as you updated it from the Ubuntu repository to a newer version FF it was no longer a unique to Mint version. But I don’t know for how long they continued to do that as newer versions of Mint came out.

But for quite awhile it was uniquely described as “Mint’s version of FF” and was supposed to be more secure than the vendor version. Mint has been pretty good about detains like that. That is why they dropped support for SNAP. It was insecure and they didn’t want any part of that insecurity.

https://lwn.net/Articles/825005/

[daniel1212]

I didn't realize two versions of FF could be installed and used independently. Will give it a try. Thanks.

Years ago, I found that if i installed Firefox Quantum while using - Firefox ESR 59.02 - the last version legacy extensions work with - then Quantum would take that over. So I prayed and pressed to find a solution, which was Firefox Portable.

As a result, I am blessed to (have 128GB RAM and ) run multiple installations of Firefox portable, each for its own general purpose, and which load separately.

But to enable then to run concurrently, in your profile folder you need place and edit a copy of the FirefoxPortable.ini from Other\Source to the main folder of FirefoxPortable (in Windows, not Linux, you can just right click on the shortcut Firefox icon, then hit Properties, then Open File location which is where you want to place FirefoxPortable.ini, which is to be found, copied from in the Other>Source folder. Paste and then edit/change that FirefoxPortable.ini to AllowMultipleInstances=true DisableIntelligentStart=true.

And in W/11 to enable separate taskbar icons I had to set “taskbar.grouping to True in About:Config

I also run two "stand-alone" installs of Chromium-based Vivaldi, and 2 of Gecko (Firefox) - based Floorp
(from Japanese students). FF extensions work on it, and even You can install multiple copies just by installing separate installations and running them from there.

CynwoodyFRpostfEnhancer works with Floorp and FirefoxPortable. See here for my upload of FRpostfEnhancer as it was written. I save many extensions but should do more.

Reviews: https://www.fastcompany.com/91038756/why-floorp-has-become-browser-of-my-dreams; https://discuss.getsol.us/d/10747-floorp-browser https://windowsforum.com/threads/floorp-browser.338083/ https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,6362.0.html

Hope this helps