Re: [Tails-dev] [tbb-dev] future of tor-launcher? - Firefox XPCOM / XUL based add-ons deprecation

2017-01-10 Thread anonym
Georg Koppen: > Patrick Schleizer: >> Hi, >> >> XPCOM / XUL based add-ons will be deprecated in Firefox. [1] >> >> I've searched trac, mailing list, irc logs... I know you are aware of >> that, but haven't found your plan forward. Is there already one? >> >> What are your plans regarding tor-launch

Re: [Tails-dev] [tbb-dev] future of tor-launcher? - Firefox XPCOM / XUL based add-ons deprecation

2017-01-10 Thread anonym
Michael Carbone: > The move away from XUL could be an opportunity to address this by > building a more generic solution that could be used by the increasing > number of tor-powered applications/environments, such as onionshare, > ricochet, tails, qubes, subgraph, etc., in addition to tor browser an

Re: [Tails-dev] [tbb-dev] future of tor-launcher? - Firefox XPCOM / XUL based add-ons deprecation

2017-01-24 Thread Mark Smith
On 1/10/17 5:18 AM, anonym wrote: > In Tails we run Tor Launcher as a stand-alone XUL application. Last I > checked it was not clear whether this would still be supported by > Firefox + WebExtensions. Do you know anything more about this? Unfortunately, I do not know anything about Mozilla's plans

Re: [Tails-dev] [tbb-dev] future of tor-launcher? - Firefox XPCOM / XUL based add-ons deprecation

2017-01-24 Thread anonym
Mark Smith: > On 1/10/17 5:18 AM, anonym wrote: >> In Tails we run Tor Launcher as a stand-alone XUL application. Last I >> checked it was not clear whether this would still be supported by >> Firefox + WebExtensions. Do you know anything more about this? > > Unfortunately, I do not know anything

Re: [Tails-dev] [tbb-dev] future of tor-launcher? - Firefox XPCOM / XUL based add-ons deprecation

2017-01-24 Thread Mark Smith
On 1/10/17 5:27 AM, anonym wrote: > Michael Carbone: >> The move away from XUL could be an opportunity to address this by >> building a more generic solution that could be used by the increasing >> number of tor-powered applications/environments, such as onionshare, >> ricochet, tails, qubes, subgr

Re: [Tails-dev] [tbb-dev] future of tor-launcher? - Firefox XPCOM / XUL based add-ons deprecation

2017-01-26 Thread anonym
anonym: > Mark Smith: >> I don't expect WebExtensions to support a standalone app mode, although >> for your purposes it might be acceptable to start the browser with >> TOR_CONFIGURE_ONLY=1. I guess there are some differences in terms of how >> much Firefox code is executed as well as loss of a cu

Re: [Tails-dev] [tbb-dev] future of tor-launcher? - Firefox XPCOM / XUL based add-ons deprecation

2017-01-26 Thread anonym
Mark Smith: > On 1/10/17 5:27 AM, anonym wrote: >> Michael Carbone: >>> The move away from XUL could be an opportunity to address this by >>> building a more generic solution that could be used by the increasing >>> number of tor-powered applications/environments, such as onionshare, >>> ricochet,