Firefox's "signed-addons"

[Corrine]

If the extensions you are using were installed from Mozilla.org, then they will be signed.  If you are using the extensions from https://addons.palemoon.org/extensions/all-extensions/, they won't be signed by Mozilla since they are not from Mozilla.org.

[v_v]

Corrine,

For most of the addon's what you said appears correct.  However I have noted 2, 3, or 4 possible exceptions (at least for the time being).

S3.Google Translator I use on all three Gecko browsers: Firefox (FF), Palemoon (PM), and SeaMonkey (SM).  On FF and PM there are new updates marked signed.  On SM there is no signed update.  I have also noted that the version number on the signed copies is 4.02.1 whereas on SeaMonkey it remains unsigned at 3.02.

Session Manager is another extension used by all 3 browsers. On FF and PM the signed copies are 0.8.1.6.1 and on SM the unsigned one is 0.8.1.6.

Navigational Sounds is signed on FF with version 1.2.4.1 but on PM it remains unsigned at 1.2.4.  It is not available for SM.

Adblock Edge in FF is 2.1.9.1 signed and in SM it remains 2.1.8.

So far then PM seems to be working in parallel with FF for everything except Navigational Sounds and yes the latter extension does come from the Mozilla site.

At this point none of my SM extensions are marked signed.

Thus far I have been referring to extensions that are automatically updating. I am sure that if I were to downloaded the new versions from the Mozilla site that they would all be signed where appropriate.

v_v

[Corrine]

I've never used SeaMonkey so am not familiar with the settings.  As to Pale Moon, the extensions you mentioned are Firefox extensions.  Do you have Adblock Latitude installed on Pale Moon?  Adblock Latitude is the Adblock Plus replacement for Pale Moon.  If you do, you'll see that it isn't signed.

[v_v]

Corrine,

Yes all the extensions that I mentioned are Firefox (FF)/Mozilla extensions.  I limited my comments to only those.  SeaMonkey (SM) uses many of the FF ones but not all of them---the selection of extensions is more limited than FF.  And then there are some at SM which do not apply to FF.

And yes I am using Adblock Latitude since Adblock Plus has problems in PaleMoon.  But because it was not a FF/Mozilla extension I did not mention it.

I suspect that SM will also be getting signed extensions at some point.  They just seem to take their time with making upgrades and they do not adopt all the changes of FF.  They seem to stick with 'under the hood' sorts of changes (security, better overall functioning, etc).  For everything else (cosmetics, etc) SM still looks and feels like Netscape!

Whoa, I just checked and SM will be discontinuing Adblock Edge as of 6-5-2015!  I noticed that Edge had a signed version at the SM site.  I wonder what that means?  I may have to go back to the Adblock Plus extensions, which are all signed at the SM site.

The other Gecko browser that I have, K-Meleon 74.0, is having none of this activity since they do not use extensions anyway.  A lot of their features (like adblock, etc) are all built in to begin with.

It is interesting how all of this seems to be working/playing out.

v_v