On 1/31/20 11:15 PM, Claudia wrote: > January 28, 2020 7:09 PM, "David Hobach" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear all, >>>> apparently Mozilla decided to discontinue that feature [1] without providing a lot of alternatives
>> [2]. >>>> It was quite useful in the past to update addons inside Qubes OS template VMs by downloading them >> to another VM and pass them to the template VM without having to start firefox and perform a lot of
>> clicking. >> >> That'll be gone. >>>> So does anyone have an alternative available apart from a dedicated template VM just for firefox?
>> >> Update the addons on every disposable VM start? ^^ >> >> BR >> David >>>> [1] https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/10/31/firefox-to-discontinue-sideloaded-extensions >> [2] https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/questions-on-sideloading-alternatives/49245
>> Not sure, but it looks like this change only affects loading from a *global* directory (/usr/share/mozilla/extensions), and loading from inside the individual profile directories (~/.mozilla/extensions) will still be enabled. If that's the case, I imagine you could just symlink the XPI directory to somewhere on root.img. However it's not clear if they are still loaded silently, or if the user has to confirm it. I haven't been able to track down any specific commits or anything related to this. Might be worth looking at the Tor Browser mailing list / bug tracker for clues, as that's how they ship NoScript and HTTPS Everywhere, I think. They're currently on FF68 ESR, but I'm sure there's some buzz about what they're eventually going to do after FF72. Come to think of it, switching to FF ESR might be a temporary workaround for you.
>> https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/10/31/firefox-to-discontinue-sideloaded-extensions/#comment-226503 > https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/10/31/firefox-to-discontinue-sideloaded-extensions/#comment-226508 > https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/10/31/firefox-to-discontinue-sideloaded-extensions/#comment-226614 > https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/issues/1517#issuecomment-513537686-permalink
Thanks for the hints!I hadn't seen the comments... Guess they were loaded via JS and thus blocked by one of my addons. ^^
Anyway you're probably right: It's either the profile loading, ESR or a dedicated template with internet access to mozilla.org. One could also follow their suggested path by setting up one's own addon server; it sounds a lot like overkill to me though.
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