Re: [qubes-users] Firefox discontinues addon sideloading

2020-03-16 Thread David Hobach
Fyi: It seems that even with Firefox 74 addon updating via sideloading still works. Initial installation probably doesn't. I don't get that latter point as the initial installation did generate a popup ("Do you want to activate the newly installed addon XYZ?") even before 74, but oh

Re: [qubes-users] Firefox discontinues addon sideloading

2020-02-01 Thread Claudia
February 1, 2020 9:13 AM, "David Hobach" wrote: > One could also follow their suggested path by setting up one's own addon > server; it sounds a lot like overkill to me though. I'm not sure if that would achieve the desired result though. I think that's no different from using the official

Re: [qubes-users] Firefox discontinues addon sideloading

2020-02-01 Thread David Hobach
On 1/31/20 11:15 PM, Claudia wrote: > January 28, 2020 7:09 PM, "David Hobach" 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

Re: [qubes-users] Firefox discontinues addon sideloading

2020-01-31 Thread Claudia
January 28, 2020 7:09 PM, "David Hobach" 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

[qubes-users] Firefox discontinues addon sideloading

2020-01-28 Thread David Hobach
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