Am Sonntag, den 10.01.2016, 16:29 -0600 schrieb Michael Catanzaro:
On Thu, 2016-01-07 at 14:26 +0100, Jiri Eischmann wrote:
Hi, there is currently a case against Firefox discussed in FESCo: https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1518
We have many different opinions in this thread. Clearly, there is no solution that will make everyone happy. I tried to formulate a consensus position based on the comments in this thread, which I suspect the majority of us can support:
"Fedora Workstation prefers to ship the latest release of Firefox, not ESR releases. Shipping an unbranded version of Firefox is acceptable to us, but not ideal. Shipping a version of Firefox that blocks unsigned extensions is also acceptable to us, but not ideal."
In other words: we're fine with FESCo deciding for either unbranded or locked-down Firefox, but we won't be very happy either way. Does this seem fair?
As long as there's no reliable data about how many users are affected by this issue IMHO the whole discussion is bulls**t. I's guess the majority of Firefox users get their addons from AMO and not from the Fedora repos and only a minority of users is affected by this issue. But that are only my 5 cent.
BTW: An other interesting fact would be to know if other distributions got the same issue with Firefox and packaged addon and what's their solution.