Include Waterfox in Progress?

[Stan Schymanski]

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for the explanation, makes a lot of sense. I have done a lot with
Scrapbook and haven't found a working replacement that would allow me to
import the files I saved and annotated previously.

Cheers

Stan


On 27/09/18 10:10, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> Hi Stan,
>
> On 09/27/2018 08:46 AM, Stan Schymanski wrote:
>> Since the upgrade to Firefox Quantum, a lot of add-ons won't work any
>> more.
> thank you for the suggestion.
>
> regarding the deprecation of xul in favour of web-ext.. this was a
> needed change in the upstream eco-system for mainly two reasons:
>
>   * security/stability (xul extensions could do basically everything,
>     web-ext is sandboxed)
>
>   * portability (web-ext is a cross-browser standard,
>     code works in the majority of cases without a shim on
>     e.g. both chromium and firefox)
>
> from an upstream point of view, given that ressources are finite, I
> consider investing time into the "right" direction more important than
> to support the old cases - even if the transition is a bit bumpy.
>
> from a downstream point of view, supporting "temporary hacks" like
> waterfox are just prolonging the pain of the transition from xul to
> web-ext. i'd rather spend the time on helping port extensions upstream,
> or at least proding upstream about it to sustain the need/pressure to
> have them updated.
>
> therefore, I prefer not including waterfox in any repositories, be it
> debian or progress.
>
> out of curiosity: which extensions are you missing? the most important
> ones that i use have been ported since long time (https-everywhere,
> ublock-origin, u-matrix, browserpass, etc.).
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
>

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