Installing Unsigned Extension in Firefox Developer Edition

Add-ons Development
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I tried searching the forum in case someone else faced this problem before. I managed to find this:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1205572

Unfortunately, it has not solved my issue. My apologies if it is a replication.

I am trying to install an unsigned extension in firefox’s developer edition. I built the extension using web-ext, and dragged and dropped the XPI file to the browser. However, my extension is not being installed, despite using the developer’s edition.

I opened the command-line to check for any errors, and found the following:

Add-on brettel@example.com is not correctly signed.
Invalid XPI: signature is required but missing

I am aware that I can use web-ext run to get my extension running temporarily, but I would like to install the unsigned version if this is possible in any way.

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If you plan to permanently use the extension, I’d recommend signing it.

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Thank you! It works.

More specifically I did the following:

go to about:config and set xpinstall.signatures.required to false.