Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] uBlock Origins 1.14.0 incompatible with IceCat 52.1.0

[Mart Rootamm]

Hi, Felix
I think your input would be welcome, though I'm not an integral part
of the GNU community, so I can't speak for GNU people.

The Waterfox project is planning to open its own extensions store that
supports XUL. I wonder, if it would instead be possible to add UI
support for more than just one store.

-M.

2017-09-02 22:48 GMT+03:00, Felix Fröhlich <address@hidden>:
>
> On 02/09/17 15:40, David Hedlund wrote:
>> On 2017-09-02 15:36, Mart Rootamm wrote:
>>> There is great consternation amonst users and some developers about
>>> the deprecation of XUL in Firefox and some derivatives, because many
>>> useful extensions would be made incompatible.
>>>
>>> It would therefore be great, if GNU hosted (or at least linked to)
>>> both the XUL-compatible extensions, and those that support
>>> WebExtensions.
>>
>> We have been heavily undermanned for maintaining IceCat add-ons on the
>> Free Software Directory. After hundreds of hours I'm not going to
>> spend any more time on legacy add-ons except highly relevant add-ons
>> like LibreJS.
>
> Is there any way I can help with this?
>>> The Firefox-derivative Waterfox browser project has decided to keep
>>> support for XUL ongoing.
>>>
>>> -M.
>>>
>>> 2017-09-02 15:38 GMT+03:00, mdn <address@hidden>:
>>>> Le 02/09/2017 06:51, David Hedlund a écrit :
>>>>> This was quickly solved after I discussed with the author. I updated
>>>>> https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin to version 1.14.4, it
>>>>> should work with IceCat 52.1.0.
>>>> Just to make a small note:
>>>> It also works with the 1.13.7.rc4 beta version of UbO.
>>>> Has for V57 when webextensions will be mandatory UbO works from version
>>>> 1.14.3b1.
>>>> Same thing for umatrix it needs to be upgrade to version 1.0.1rc1.
>>>> With v57 HTTPS everywhere works only with version 2017.8.31.
>>>> Have a good day.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2017-09-02 00:06, Felix Fröhlich wrote:
>>>>>> Greetings all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I recently noticed that uBlock Origins was labelled incompatible with
>>>>>> IceCat 52.1.0. The author published a new version (1.14.0) which
>>>>>> drops
>>>>>> the support for any Firefox-based browser that does not support
>>>>>> WebExtensions. It looks like IceCat page saw that version and updated
>>>>>> uBlock Origins without (being capable of?) checking whether that
>>>>>> version
>>>>>> could actually be used.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It was possible to reverse this update by downloading uBlock
>>>>>> 1.13.8 from
>>>>>> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/versions/1.13.8
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and disabling automatic updates for it (not sure if disabling them
>>>>>> was
>>>>>> necessary), but it would be nice if -- until WebExtensions are
>>>>>> supported
>>>>>> by IceCat, of course -- IceCat would hold back add-on updates if they
>>>>>> are marked as incompatible with the corresponding Firefox version (in
>>>>>> this case, 52.1.0esr).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Kind regards.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>
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