Hi, Felix I think your input would be welcome, though I'm not an integral part of the GNU community, so I can't speak for GNU people.
The Waterfox project is planning to open its own extensions store that supports XUL. I wonder, if it would instead be possible to add UI support for more than just one store. -M. 2017-09-02 22:48 GMT+03:00, Felix Fröhlich <[email protected]>: > > On 02/09/17 15:40, David Hedlund wrote: >> On 2017-09-02 15:36, Mart Rootamm wrote: >>> There is great consternation amonst users and some developers about >>> the deprecation of XUL in Firefox and some derivatives, because many >>> useful extensions would be made incompatible. >>> >>> It would therefore be great, if GNU hosted (or at least linked to) >>> both the XUL-compatible extensions, and those that support >>> WebExtensions. >> >> We have been heavily undermanned for maintaining IceCat add-ons on the >> Free Software Directory. After hundreds of hours I'm not going to >> spend any more time on legacy add-ons except highly relevant add-ons >> like LibreJS. > > Is there any way I can help with this? >>> The Firefox-derivative Waterfox browser project has decided to keep >>> support for XUL ongoing. >>> >>> -M. >>> >>> 2017-09-02 15:38 GMT+03:00, mdn <[email protected]>: >>>> Le 02/09/2017 06:51, David Hedlund a écrit : >>>>> This was quickly solved after I discussed with the author. I updated >>>>> https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin to version 1.14.4, it >>>>> should work with IceCat 52.1.0. >>>> Just to make a small note: >>>> It also works with the 1.13.7.rc4 beta version of UbO. >>>> Has for V57 when webextensions will be mandatory UbO works from version >>>> 1.14.3b1. >>>> Same thing for umatrix it needs to be upgrade to version 1.0.1rc1. >>>> With v57 HTTPS everywhere works only with version 2017.8.31. >>>> Have a good day. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 2017-09-02 00:06, Felix Fröhlich wrote: >>>>>> Greetings all, >>>>>> >>>>>> I recently noticed that uBlock Origins was labelled incompatible with >>>>>> IceCat 52.1.0. The author published a new version (1.14.0) which >>>>>> drops >>>>>> the support for any Firefox-based browser that does not support >>>>>> WebExtensions. It looks like IceCat page saw that version and updated >>>>>> uBlock Origins without (being capable of?) checking whether that >>>>>> version >>>>>> could actually be used. >>>>>> >>>>>> It was possible to reverse this update by downloading uBlock >>>>>> 1.13.8 from >>>>>> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/versions/1.13.8 >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> and disabling automatic updates for it (not sure if disabling them >>>>>> was >>>>>> necessary), but it would be nice if -- until WebExtensions are >>>>>> supported >>>>>> by IceCat, of course -- IceCat would hold back add-on updates if they >>>>>> are marked as incompatible with the corresponding Firefox version (in >>>>>> this case, 52.1.0esr). >>>>>> >>>>>> Kind regards. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> http://gnuzilla.gnu.org >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> http://gnuzilla.gnu.org >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> Librement >>>> BERNARD >>>> >>>> ENG: Please be kind enough to use GPG for our future conversations: >>>> https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/ >>>> If this email isn't PGP signed then it isn't mine. >>>> >>>> -If you can't compile it dump it. >>>> >>>> >>> -- >>> http://gnuzilla.gnu.org >> >> >> -- >> http://gnuzilla.gnu.org > > > -- http://gnuzilla.gnu.org
