[Bug-gnuzilla] Android - cannot configure Add-ons - denied permission WRITE_SETTINGS

2018-06-11 Thread cotw
ot;Operation not allowed: java.lang.SecurityException: Permission android.permission.WRITE_SETTINGS is not a changeable permission type." Is this my problem, Xiaomi MIUI 9.5.50 problem, Android 7.1.2 problem or IceCatMobile 52.6.0 problem? Has anyone noticed the same misfunction or is this a known issue? Thank you, cotw -- http://gnuzilla.gnu.org

Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] Android - cannot configure Add-ons - denied permission WRITE_SETTINGS

2018-06-12 Thread cotw
Hello, Thanks for your reply. I did root the phone. It is a Xiaomi Redmi 4A. Neither Replicant nor Lineage have official releases for this device. Of course I have deactivated half (>100 hand picked apps) of the shipped stuff, and blocked all the phoning home I can get a hold of with netstat,

Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] Android - cannot configure Add-ons - denied permission WRITE_SETTINGS

2018-06-12 Thread cotw
Because you both are right, I wiped MIUI from my phone thoroughly and installed Resurrection Remix. Which I donloaded from sourceforge, as it should be. Unfortunately on a clean install of IceCat, where I even dindn't yet mess with about:config, still the configuration of the add-ons like LibreJ

Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] Android - cannot configure Add-ons - denied permission WRITE_SETTINGS

2018-06-14 Thread cotw
I guess there is going to be a new IceCat soon, as Fennec's last Extended Service Release 60 is out. I guess the sync that somehow, anyway forking a project like Firefox one can obviously not release in the same speed, unless you have a lot of manpower. In my old phone I had the same problem of

Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] Distros: Firefox derivatives (icecat, others) Warn me when sites try to install add-ons; Exceptions

2018-08-24 Thread cotw
I have this also in FF 52.9. Though I consider it common and expectable that software providers whitelist their own domains for phoning home, or even domains of associates/partners. I hadn't been even able to switch off auto-updating in uMatrix in its preferences, which I found very odd consider