Package: iceweasel Version: 8.0-2 Severity: wishlist
Hi. These are some toughts on the addons and their integration in Firefox/Iceweasel, with respect to our packaging system. As you know, more and more extensions get specifically packaged for Debian, which is somewhat nice as it adds security. - in principle security support through Debian - one could argue that these are "Debian-trusted" add-ons... in contrast to just something downloaded from somewhere on the web. Now it seems to me that the integration of packaged add-ons with firefox gets more and more complicated. - With 8.0 I'm asked whether I want to enable my Debian-packaged addos in firefox. Guess this shouldn't be necessary at all... as one should typically trust the Debian packages more than anything else. - It seems that Firefox tries to upgrade Debian-packaged add ons with the web-versions, if something newer is enabled. It's totally unclear to me, whether this is secure then (like Debian packages are secured by signatres), so I always manually disable this. I think however it should be the default, that Debian package based addons are not automatically upgraded. Cheers, Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
