Firefox Extensions still needed?

[Bryan Quigley]

Hi David,

So if I'm understanding correctly, than xul-ext-webaccounts and
xul-ext-unity could be dropped for 15.10?

Thanks!
Bryan

On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 10:25 AM, David Barth <david.barth at canonical.com> wrote:
> You're right: not all of them actually make sense in the new world order, as
> we have a better solution on touch devices in particular. That's why we
> started with just the one that signals the existence of webapps. The better
> integration points and OA links are now directly with webapp-container.
>
> Still the main one makes sense to keep around.
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Bryan Quigley <gquigs+u at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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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