David, why is Waterfox not fully free? -M.
2017-09-03 5:11 GMT+03:00, David Hedlund <pub...@beloved.name>: > > > On 2017-09-03 04:05, Mart Rootamm wrote: >> 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. > > Waterfox is not fully free like IceCat. And IceCat 57 will support > WebExtensions. > >> -M. >> >> 2017-09-02 22:48 GMT+03:00, Felix Fröhlich <felix.froehl...@convey.de>: >>> 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 <bernardl...@openmailbox.org>: >>>>>> 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 > > > -- > http://gnuzilla.gnu.org > -- http://gnuzilla.gnu.org