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Perspectives missing from Firefox Add-ons site

Open Chaz6 opened this issue 6 years ago • 5 comments
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Going to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/perspectives/ results in Oops! We can’t find that page and I could not find another source for the addon.

Chaz6 avatar May 18 '19 12:05 Chaz6

This project hasn't been updated since 2016, so probably (I haven't actually looked) isn't a webextension, so it probably wouldn't work anyway.

d7415 avatar May 18 '19 12:05 d7415

Would some funding help? I cannot promise much myself, but maybe I could organize a fundraiser.

Chaz6 avatar May 23 '19 09:05 Chaz6

Perspectives used XPCOM to access information about certificates, which, to my best knowledge, isn't possible, and is not supposed to ever be possible with WebExtensions.

mwgamera avatar May 23 '19 13:05 mwgamera

I can't remember the current state, but there has been some work on SSL APIs in WebExtensions in Firefox. There was basically nothing when they made the transition, but a lot is there and I think anything missing is probably on the todo list.

Edit to add: Proof of concept WebExtension: https://github.com/april/certainly-something

d7415 avatar May 23 '19 15:05 d7415

Certainly Something seems to use web​Request​.get​Security​Info() which indeed gives the relevant info; so looks like I was wrong. The only thing missing seems to be a way to override an error.

mwgamera avatar May 23 '19 22:05 mwgamera