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> - I can't run the extensions I develop in dev mode. I haven’t been able to find a solution for this. That said, I don't encounter this issue in LibreWolf.

I don't have this problem. I was gonna type a long winded thing to descrbe how I do it but since you managed to make it work in LibreWolf it's likely not an issue with how you're doing it

>- I experience video codec issues, which I hope I’m not the only one facing.

I haven't had that either

My bane is trying to make microphones/cameras work in video calls on teams/slack/etc. When you open up the console they use chrome-only javascript all over. They give no shit supporting firefox.



- In Librewolf, when I set the `xpinstall.signatures.required` preference to `false` in the `about:config` section, I'm able to install my `.xpi` extension. However, this setting doesn't work in Firefox.

- The other issue was related to codecs. On Windows, I encountered an error message saying: "No video with supported format and MIME type found."

The issue was resolved after installing the following codecs on Windows:

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9mvzqvxjbq9v

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9n4d0msmp0pt


If I recall signatures.required is disabled in main firefox for security reasons. You need Firefox Nightly or Firefox Dev edition to use it. Anyway I changed to chrome for my plugin.

Edit: found some info about it

> Setting xpinstall.signatures.required to false will not work on the Beta or Release versions of Firefox on Mac or Windows. Doing so has no effect. On Linux, depending on your distribution, the setting may be respected and does work on some distributions of the release version of Firefox.

https://superuser.com/questions/1432789/all-of-my-firefox-ad...


>- The other issue was related to codecs. On Windows, I encountered an error message saying: "No video with supported format and MIME type found."

I did get that for a few days!

But then it went away. By itself.


> I don't have this problem. I was gonna type a long winded thing to descrbe how I do it but since you managed to make it work in LibreWolf it's likely not an issue with how you're doing it

You're probably lucky that it's working, as it should be disabled in the release version of firefox.




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