Firefox Extensions still needed?

[Bryan Quigley]

Hi David,

Are those extensions still needed for our Unity vision or does the new
Ubuntu browser make them obsolete?  Already the Chromium part of those
extensions no longer works, could the Firefox part be dropped too?

What specifically is each one supposed to do?

Kind regards,
Bryan

On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 8:48 AM, David Barth <david.barth at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 12:41 PM, David Barth <david.barth at canonical.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Chris Coulson <chrisccoulson at ubuntu.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 10/08/15 22:21, Xavier Guillot 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
>>>
>>>
>>> Ubufox was signed a few weeks ago and will be shipped with the Firefox 40
>>> update tomorrow. However, it's only been through preliminary review, and
>>> future Firefox versions disable side-loaded addons that haven't had a full
>>> review.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure about the status of the other addons (cc'ing dbarth).
>>
>>
>> Yup, we've started submitting webapps extensions as well, starting with
>> the main xul-ext-websites-integration.
>
>
> Hmm, actually there is a problem, but thanks for the reminder.
>
> David
>
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