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

[Felix Fröhlich]

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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