[Bug 1085536] Re: Xubuntu has firefox-globalmenu package witch it cant use

[Leo H]

Hi Chris.  I am inclined to suggest that logic suggests otherwise, and
that you are turning the issue upside down in your post #5.  Firefox
only needs to meet the freedesktop.org specifications for user interface
compatibility.  If Unity deviates so as to require a special module to
integrate Firefox in its user interface, then that should be added to
Unity, not to Firefox.

As things stand, the firefox-globalmenu package adds an extension to
Firefox.  If a user of, say, Xubuntu or Kubuntu now opens the Firefox
Extensions page, then that user is presented with an extension which is
useless because it has no – and cannot have any – functionality in the
Xfce or KDE desktop user environments.  This is not even explained in so
many words to the Firefox user who explores his/her installed Firefox
Extensions (only implicitly if he or she happens to know what the
ambiguous expression "Unity appmenu" stands for).

The user should not be presented by default with useless Firefox
extensions.

It simply is a Unity problem, not a Firefox problem.  It should be
resolved in Unity, not in Firefox.

And the untargeted universal installation of a Unity-specific Firefox
Extension irrespective of the actual desktop installed, be it Unity,
XFCE, KDE or other, is the worst of all solutions.

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