Re: Firefox Extensions still needed?

2015-08-18 Thread David Barth
We have audited the extensions again. Even the simpler xul-ext-websites-integration requires quite a rewrite to support the convergence case. It still uses greasemokey internally and though it doesn't do much anymore, either the code audit or the rewrite will be painful. We are now considering the

Re: Firefox Extensions still needed?

2015-08-12 Thread Bryan Quigley
Hi David, So if I'm understanding correctly, than xul-ext-webaccounts and xul-ext-unity could be dropped for 15.10? Thanks! Bryan On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 10:25 AM, David Barth wrote: > You're right: not all of them actually make sense in the new world order, as > we have a better solution on to

Re: Firefox Extensions still needed?

2015-08-11 Thread David Barth
You're right: not all of them actually make sense in the new world order, as we have a better solution on touch devices in particular. That's why we started with just the one that signals the existence of webapps. The better integration points and OA links are now directly with webapp-container. S

Re: Firefox Extensions still needed?

2015-08-11 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Le 11/08/2015 14:48, David Barth a écrit : > Hmm, actually there is a problem, but thanks for the reminder. Hey David, Thanks for the reply, can you give some detail on that? Do we have registered bugs for the issues? Cheers, Sebastien Bacher -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists

Re: Firefox Extensions still needed?

2015-08-11 Thread Bryan Quigley
Hi David, Are those extensions still needed for our Unity vision or does the new Ubuntu browser make them obsolete? Already the Chromium part of those extensions no longer works, could the Firefox part be dropped too? What specifically is each one supposed to do? Kind regards, Bryan On Tue, Au

Re: Firefox Extensions still needed?

2015-08-11 Thread David Barth
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 12:41 PM, David Barth wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Chris Coulson > wrote: > >> On 10/08/15 22:21, Xavier Guillot wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I can't answer to this specific question, but as an user with Firefox as >> default browser on Ubuntu 15.04 Desktop, if th

Re: Firefox Extensions still needed?

2015-08-11 Thread David Barth
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Chris Coulson wrote: > On 10/08/15 22:21, Xavier Guillot wrote: > > Hi, > > I can't answer to this specific question, but as an user with Firefox as > default browser on Ubuntu 15.04 Desktop, if those addons are kept, perhaps > they need to be signed. > > Today w

Re: Firefox Extensions still needed?

2015-08-11 Thread Chris Coulson
On 10/08/15 22:21, Xavier Guillot wrote: > Hi, > > I can't answer to this specific question, but as an user with Firefox > as default browser on Ubuntu 15.04 Desktop, if those addons are kept, > perhaps they need to be signed. > > Today when I updated to the latest FF Nightly 42.0a1 on the daily pp

Re: Firefox Extensions still needed?

2015-08-10 Thread Bryan Quigley
Hi Xavier, That's actually what triggered my email which I forgot to mention, so thanks for bringing it up! Bryan On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 5:21 PM, Xavier Guillot wrote: > Hi, > > I can't answer to this specific question, but as an user with Firefox as > default browser on Ubuntu 15.04 Desktop, i

Re: Firefox Extensions still needed?

2015-08-10 Thread Xavier Guillot
Hi, I can't answer to this specific question, but as an user with Firefox as default browser on Ubuntu 15.04 Desktop, if those addons are kept, perhaps they need to be signed. Today when I updated to the latest FF Nightly 42.0a1 on the daily ppa, Mozilla activated the obligation to use only

Firefox Extensions still needed?

2015-08-10 Thread Bryan Quigley
HI, I'm wondering if we still need these three Firefox extensions. I can't tell* what they do in Wily: Ubuntu Online Accounts(xul-ext-webaccounts) Unity Desktop Integration (xul-ext-unity) Unity Websites integration (xul-ext-websites-integration) With a Unity specific browser coming, is t