Re: Case against Firefox in FESCo

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Hi,

IMHO I say that Firefox lately gets problems, and we have better
browsers in the repository already. We have Web, and pretty much
usable.

Zoltan

2016-01-07 14:29 GMT+01:00 Naheem Zaffar <naheemzaffar@xxxxxxxxx>:
> ESR will only delay the problem.
>
> Can the Fedora build add a secodary key to accept signed extensions?
>
> AFAIK the long term plan is todeprecate the current method of extensions in
> favour of a more browser agnostic approach.
>
> On 7 January 2016 at 13:26, Jiri Eischmann <eischmann@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> there is currently a case against Firefox discussed in FESCo:
>> https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1518
>>
>> The problem in short: The last release of Firefox doesn't allow the
>> user to install add-ons which are not signed by Mozilla by default, in
>> the next version, you won't even be able to disable this behavior. This
>> means that a couple of add-ons that are packaged by Fedora won't work.
>>
>> In my opinion, this problem has an impact on a relatively small number
>> of users while suggested solutions will have an impact on majority of
>> Workstation users. The author of the original ticket recommends Firefox
>> is removed altogether if Mozilla doesn't change their plan, another
>> suggestion is to switch to ESR which would mean that Fedora would have
>> as conservative approach to Firefox updates as RHEL.
>>
>> Firefox is probably the most important desktop app in Fedora, so I
>> wonder whether the Workstation working group should voice its opinion
>> in this before any decision is made.
>>
>> Jiri
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