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

[David Hedlund]

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.
>
> 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.

That will likely take most of his spare time.

> -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?

I can need some help. Let me come back within a few weeks.

> > > > 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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