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

[Mart Rootamm]

David, why is Waterfox not fully free?

-M.

2017-09-03 5:11 GMT+03:00, David Hedlund <address@hidden>:
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> On 2017-09-03 04:05, Mart Rootamm wrote:
>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> Waterfox is not fully free like IceCat. And IceCat 57 will support
> WebExtensions.
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>> -M.
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>> 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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>>>>>> BERNARD
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>>>>>> ENG: Please be kind enough to use GPG for our future conversations:
>>>>>> https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/
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>>>>>>
>>>>>> -If you can't compile it dump it.
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