Firefox Extensions still needed?

[Bryan Quigley]

Hi Xavier,

That's actually what triggered my email which I forgot to mention, so
thanks for bringing it up!
Bryan

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 5:21 PM, Xavier Guillot <Valeryan_24 at laposte.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I can't answer to this specific question, but as an user with Firefox as
> default browser on Ubuntu 15.04 Desktop, if those addons are kept, perhaps
> they need to be signed.
>
> Today when I updated to the latest FF Nightly 42.0a1 on the daily ppa,
> Mozilla activated the obligation to use only officially signed extensions:
> https://support.mozilla.org/fr/kb/add-on-signing-in-firefox
>
> All 3 Ubuntu addons were automatically desactivated.
>
> On the nightly version, there is an option in About:config to restore the
> old behavior (xpinstall.signatures.required set to false), but on future
> normal and beta versions of Firefox, it will not be possible anymore
> normally.
>
> Even if the addons are provided directly in the packages and not on Mozilla
> site, it is still also possible to validate them.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Xavier
>
>
> Le 10/08/2015 19:21, Bryan Quigley a écrit :
>
> HI,
>
> I'm wondering if we still need these three Firefox extensions.  I
> can't tell* what they do in Wily:
> Ubuntu Online Accounts    (xul-ext-webaccounts)
> Unity Desktop Integration   (xul-ext-unity)
> Unity Websites integration  (xul-ext-websites-integration)
>
> With a Unity specific browser coming, is there a reason to maintain these?
>
> Kind regards,
> Bryan
>
> Ubuntu Firefox Modifications  (xul-ext-ubufox)
> Does the defaults change, apt://, etc - still useful
>
> * Online Accounts for Gmail doesn't set up anything specific for the
> browser.  My Firefox doesn't seem better integrated with them on.
>
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