Bug#881904: xul-ext-useragentswitcher: does not work with modern versions of Firefox

[Paul Wise]

On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 01:05:32 -0800 Ian Bruce wrote:

> Please replace it with one of the following:
> 
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-switcher-revived/
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/custom-user-agent-revived/

I note that both of these are *very* different to the existing plugin
so I suggest that the upstream author be pinged about their update.

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Bug#881904: xul-ext-useragentswitcher: does not work with modern versions of Firefox

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

Package: xul-ext-useragentswitcher
Version: 0.7.3-3
Followup-For: Bug #881904


Hi.

I've just contacted the upstream author. He in fact plans to make a 
WebExtensions
version sooner or later:
On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 17:02 -0800, Chris Pederick wrote:
> I was focused on updating Web Developer up to this point. The new
> version of Firefox will essentially require starting entirely from
> scratch for User Agent Switcher, so while I hope to create a
> WebExtension version at some point I am not sure how soon that will
> be.


Cheers,
Chris.

Bug#881904: xul-ext-useragentswitcher: does not work with modern versions of Firefox

[Ian Bruce]

Package: xul-ext-useragentswitcher
Version: 0.7.3-3
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

This Firefox addon has not been updated in six years, and does not work
with any version of Firefox available in the current release, even those
prior to v57. This package is therefore useless, in its current form.
Please replace it with one of the following:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-switcher-revived/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/custom-user-agent-revived/



-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), 
(500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_CA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages xul-ext-useragentswitcher depends on:
ii  firefox  57.0-1

xul-ext-useragentswitcher recommends no packages.

xul-ext-useragentswitcher suggests no packages.

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