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Re: Addon licenses, plugin links, about:gnuzilla, and a bug
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Giuseppe Scrivano |
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Re: Addon licenses, plugin links, about:gnuzilla, and a bug |
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Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:40:32 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.94 (gnu/linux) |
Nick <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I have a few things to mention.
>
> First, addons.mozilla.org do now have a (optional) license field for
> addons. As far as I can tell you can't yet use it as a search
> filter, and I don't know how the addon finder service works,
> but it looks like they did listen after all. See the addon
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11249 for an example
> of the field in action.
That is good but still it is not enough, we want only free addons not
only a filter. By the way, I don't get the filter on the
addons.mozilla.org web page, where is it?
> Second, about:plugins has links to https://pfs.mozilla.org/plugins/
> and http:// plugindoc.mozdev.org/. The latter I wouldn't say
> encourages use of non-free software, but does list plenty
> and give instructions on its installation. The former
> is just a list of lots of nasty proprietary addons (plus java).
> Would I be right in thinking that such links are considered bugs in
> gnuzilla/icecat?
I will take a look at it, whatever that links to non-free software is a
bug here :)
> Finally, a bug. I don't know if this exists in mozilla firefox also,
> and it's possible that it's just my gentoo installation.
> Regardless, when I go to about: about, I get an error message,
> proclaiming "IceCat can't find the file at jar:
> file:///usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9/chrome/toolkit.jar!/content/global/aboutAbout.html."
>
> The correct address appears to be
> jar:file:///usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9/chrome/toolkit.
> jar!/content/global/about.xhtml
Which version of IceCat are you using? The binary tarball, the .deb
package or compiled by yourself?
Cheers,
Giuseppe
- Addon licenses, plugin links, about:gnuzilla, and a bug, Nick, 2009/06/19
- Re: Addon licenses, plugin links, about:gnuzilla, and a bug, Niklas Cholmkvist, 2009/06/19
- Re: Addon licenses, plugin links, about:gnuzilla, and a bug,
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- Re: Addon licenses, plugin links, about:gnuzilla, and a bug, Sam Geeraerts, 2009/06/20
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