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

[Daniel Quintiliani]

Pale Moon will also keep XUL support ongoing, that has been my main browser for 
a long time.

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-Dan Q

On Sat, 2 Sep 2017 16:36:04 +0300, Mart Rootamm <address@hidden> 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.
> 
> 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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> >>
> >
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> > BERNARD
> >
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> >
> > -If you can't compile it dump it.
> >
> >
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