Public bug reported:
This package has been reported as not working for more than 6 years (bug
#1502129).
I just verified in a 21.10 VM that indeed the search engines installed
by the package are not picked up by firefox. At least one of the reasons
is that firefox looks for addons only in
/usr/lib/firefox/distribution/extensions (this can be observed in the
browser console after changing the 'browser.search.log' to true in
about:config). This would be easy to address, but there may be other
issues with the package.
Given that:
- the package is unmaintained (last update in 2012, almost 10 years ago)
- it has been known not to work for 6+ years
- with bug #1962021, the firefox packages in jammy are becoming "transitional
packages" that install the firefox snap, and the firefox snap won't be allowed
to look for extensions in /usr/lib on the host system
I request that the binary package be removed from the jammy release
pocket.
** Affects: firefox-launchpad-plugin (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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pocket
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