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extensions.webextensions.remote = false

Open rextheleopard opened this issue 4 years ago • 3 comments

  • Windows x32_64 10.0.20170.1000
  • Mozilla Firefox 80.0a1 (2020-07-20) (64-bit)
  • NoScript 11.0.34rc1

If extensions.webextensions.remote option in firefox set to false (needs restart), noscipt configuration page does not opens from toolbar icon.

rextheleopard avatar Jul 21 '20 09:07 rextheleopard

Reproducible with v11.0.34 in Firefox 79.0b9 on Linux (Debian 9.13). However, after some debugging, it looks like the errors are thrown from Firefox code (not NoScript code), and given that this feature is being removed from Firefox desktop, I’d say this is a WONTFIX. You can open the config page from about:addons until this preference is completely ignored by Firefox.

jtotht avatar Jul 21 '20 10:07 jtotht

To be honest, I hate when the browser generates a lot of processes. This is absolutely monstrous. Perhaps this setting will be removed forcibly in the future, but in the current nightly it exists. Many other extensions work great with it, such as uBlock Origin and uMatrix. uBlock Origin and uMatrix open their settings page without any problem.

rextheleopard avatar Jul 21 '20 22:07 rextheleopard

It’s already explicitly marked as deprecated in FF74. The fact that it still happens to work doesn’t mean that anyone should support a deprecated configuration, especially as a relatively painless workaround (about:addons) exists. If either you or anyone else provides a fix that doesn’t make things much more complex, i don’t see a reason to reject it, but I think there are more important issues to work on.

jtotht avatar Jul 21 '20 23:07 jtotht