I asked this in the other thread but I guess there's too many comments there: Is there a project for Firefox that is analogous to Chromium for Chrome? I need a Firefox build with all the Mozilla shit ripped out. I don't trust the org that decided their certificate expiration was more important than giving users the choice to run what they want.
Librefox isn't exactly what you described, but it's close. It's a set of configs that disable a bunch of telemetry and other unauthorized mothership connectivity and settings pushing.
However, Librefox is only Firefox with some configuration changes. It is not a whole new build, and it wouldn't have protected you from this problem since the problematic addon cert checking is still there.
Note that this would have happened even if the browser never communicated back home - this problem was triggered via an unwitting time bomb of sorts, not because Mozilla actively took an action that inadvertently broke something.
> The Nightly and Developer Edition versions of Firefox have a preference to disable signature enforcement. There are also be special unbranded versions of Release and Beta that have this preference, so that add-on developers can work on their add-ons without having to sign every build. To disable signature checks, you will need to set the xpinstall.signatures.required preference to "false".
Otherwise I guess there’s also IceWeasel if you’re on Linux?
