We've spent several days with our top devs working on finiding a way to make necessary security improvements without breaking the world of 1.0.x extensions and we think we're finally there. This set of test builds should behave pretty much the same as Firefox 1.0.2 and if you can find any regressions over 1.0.2, including in extension handling, please let me know ASAP.
Firefox 1.0.3 candidate builds:
I thank you all for all the amazing feedback during this last week of candidate builds. I'm overwhelmed by the volume and quality of replies and want to thank everyone that's helped with extension testing. If everything works as we expect it to, extensions should all work with this release. Do let me know, either here in comments, or in an email if you'd prefer, if you find any regressions over 1.0.2. Thanks, again, for all your help.