make a temporary firefox addon to load on every instance

Costas

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test made with Mozilla.Firefox Developer Edition v148.0b8 (64-bit), you can get an offline installer here.

vanilla - how to load a temporary addon on firefox

1)
so at the time, you have a folder contains the addon files such as :

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make sure the addon can be loaded as temporary addon, on URL enter :
about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox

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click the button and point the manifest.json, afterwards will be visible here to use it

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3)
so far so good, but when you close the Firefox, on next run the addon will not loaded (due is temporary ah?) ;)

how to make it permanent

4)
load /Firefox Developer Edition/ on URL enter :
about:config
search for
xpinstall.signatures.required
and make it FALSE

5)
on your manifest.json append these :
JSON:
    "browser_specific_settings": {
      "gecko": {
        "id": "xxx@xxx.com",
        "strict_min_version": "147.0"
      }
    }

source | reference [2]

6) zip the files shown on step1, rename the test.zip to test.xpi

7) load the /Firefox Developer Edition/ and drag & drop the test.xpi

now when visiting :
about:addons

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