On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 3:00 AM, Benjamin Kerensa <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Desktop Team, > > unity-firefox-extension does not comply with upstream add-on policy > (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Add-on_guidelines) > which does not permit automatic installation of an add-on into Firefox > which the aforementioned Ubuntu package does. > > I have raised a request upstream to add unity-firefox-extension to > Blocklisting, and part of that process is to reach out to the vendor > or developer responsible for the add-on to ask them to fix the add-on > to bring it into the scope of upstream guidelines. > > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-firefox-extension/+bug/1238470
Mozilla's wiki page on blocklisting a plugin [0], states that there should be a high bar for adding plugins to the blocklist: > Acceptable reasons for blocking software include: > > * Critical security vulnerabilities. > * A history of security vulnerabilities. > * High crash volume. > * Malicious in nature. > * Severe performance impact (e.g. adds more than 75% to start-up time). > * Severe bugs that unintentionally affect core Firefox features. I don't think that unity-firefox-extension meets those criteria, do you? Is there an upstream bug tracking this issue? [0] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Blocklisting Thanks, -- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio Ubuntu Developer <https://launchpad.net/~andrewsomething> Debian Developer <http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=asb> PGP/GPG Key ID: D53FDCB1 -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
