On Fri, 2017-10-13 at 12:58 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: > On Fri, 2017-10-13 at 09:43 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Fri, 2017-10-13 at 14:26 +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 02:55:37PM +0100, Peter Oliver wrote: > > > > On Fri, 13 Oct 2017, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > > > > > > > > All the energy devoted to this thread would imho be better > > > > > spent on > > > > > trying to encourage the authors of popular extensions to update > > > > > to the > > > > > new model, > > > > > > > > My understanding is that the new API lacks capabilities needed to > > > > make some extensions possible. Mozilla may or may not > > > > reimplement > > > > some of these functionalities in the future, but, for the time > > > > being, there’s little that the authors of such extensions can do. > > > > > > Sure, that's what everybody knows. But without going from > > > generalities > > > to details of a specific extension, we're just speculating idly. > > > > Someone's given one example already, here's another: > > > > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/calomel-ssl-validation > > / > > > > "IMPORTANT: Development of the Calomel SSL Validation addon has been > > put on hold. Mozilla is disabling XUL and XPCOM in Firefox which > > means > > the addon is no longer able to query the current browser tab for the > > TLS certificate and cipher information." > > > > Sure, you can just manually inspect the details of any given site's > > certificate and TLS config, but Calomel's icon and grading system > > made > > it much easier to notice when some important site had a bad config. > > :/ > > Adam not replying just to you but the general thread. > What is the point of bringing up all these plugins breakage ? Zbigniew specifically asked for examples. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
