-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/07/2016 08:29 AM, Naheem Zaffar wrote: > ESR will only delay the problem. > Right, that was proposed as a short-term solution for stable Fedora releases while a better one was implemented. > Can the Fedora build add a secodary key to accept signed > extensions? > No, this is not possible at this time. It's one of the things we're asking Mozilla to add. > AFAIK the long term plan is todeprecate the current method of > extensions in favour of a more browser agnostic approach. > Whatever the mechanism, the basic problem is that Fedora cannot ship any extensions by default. This may impact Workstation in other ways beyond simply the Firefox name: as I recall there have been discussions of having Workstation ship with a customized user-agent extension as well as possibly a theming extension. Neither of these will be possible because Firefox can no longer load it. (Some other useful additions might have been some of the privacy extensions; I know people were working on that). One alternative would be for us to switch to using Icecat as the default browser, possibly modifying the .desktop file to just report itself as "Browser". It is fundamentally the same browser as Firefox, except not bound by the "you cannot change anything and still call it Firefox" rules. > On 7 January 2016 at 13:26, Jiri Eischmann <eischmann@xxxxxxxxxx > <mailto: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 -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > <mailto:desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/desktop@lists.fedoraproject .org > > > > > > > -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/desktop@lists.fedoraproject .org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlaOaXoACgkQeiVVYja6o6M4dwCgiukpQ7dyXUiKg3rxigBr71IO IrsAoLIrylWnqJgGNS3EL/nee5bf8PFT =kpzG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
