Hi,
its not 100% clear to me when an addon is considered to be side-loaded, in particular for unlisted addon’s. I couldn’t find any details of the ‘web install’ procedure thats mentioned on the various blog posts and wiki pages concerning the signing of addons.
So to clarify, lets say I have an addon that is not listed on amo and I provide a public URL where this addon can be downloaded. This addon is a companion to an application, the installer for that application launches Firefox with the public URL to start a registration process. The user sees and still has to accept the installation of the addon this way as far as I understood, its just initiated by the installer.
Is this considered side-loading? If it is considered side-loading, then I assume the only way for having an unlisted not-side-loaded addon that works closely together with an application would be to have the installer ask the user to go to a website and load the plugin from there (from inside Firefox)? Would the installer be allowed to start the Firefox process for this?