Why did the original extension get removed? What policy was violated?

[alexmojaki]

I'm curious about a number of things:

1. What exactly did Lazarus do that caused it to be removed?
2. Where is the source code for Lazarus?
3. If it's not publicly available, how did you make this patch?
4. Is it safe to manually re-enable and continue using Lazarus?

[sierracircle]

1. Lazarus did not do anything, and it was not removed in violation of anything in particular. Last year Firefox switched to a new structure for any plugins or addons. Since lazarus was abandoned by its owner, it was never re-written to fit the structure.

2. All firefox plugins have the "source code" within them. You simply extract the files like you would any zip or compressed file.

3. We did not "patch" lazarus. We re-wrote it.

4. What do you mean by "safe"?

[alexmojaki]

In my Chrome, Lazarus got disabled automatically. The manage extensions page says "This extension violates the Chrome Web Store policy". It's also been removed from the store. Here is a thread talking about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/7zzyr0/lazarus_form_recovery_is_gone_from_chrome_store/

I found this repo from a link in the above. I thought that the 'patched' in the title referred to fixing the violation. So is this the official repo for the chrome extension?

[sierracircle]

I see. you are after the Chrome add-on. We have discussed migrating our work to Chrome, but we have not done that yet. What we do have available is just some patched work that other people did in the Chrome store. I think it was called "Lazarus: Form Recovery, Patched" ..not our work. I have it in Chrome since the last year and it has worked fine, but I see that it is no longer available in the web-store

[JLuc]

I'm also looking for a replacement for Lazarus for chrome, and Typio isnt good enough.

So here is what i understand : you cloned a totaly new lazarus extension that existed for chrome (that was writen from scratch or from original Lazarus source ?) as this "chrome-patched" repo. But your goal is to develop a Firefox version.

Am i right @sierracircle ?

Do you know where is the original "Lazarus: Form Recovery, Patched" that you cloned or forked here ?

[sierracircle]

We have already developed a firefox version. There was already a chrome-patched version that someone else did. We just have that here in case anyone wants to update it (so far no one had volunteered)

[janez33]

Somebody said to me that when firefox version will be finished you are going to update the chrome version. Too sad :/

[sszorin]

Where is the sneaky Lazarus extension for Chrome ? 'Typio' does not work on Chrome very well - hardly at all.

[orschiro]

Dear all,

Adding myself to the discussion. I have tested this repo in Chrome for several weeks now and it's working flawlessly. Are there any objections to putting the current state of this repo back onto the Chrome Web Store?

Yours

[ircpresident]

Can't wait for it to be back!

[tdurova]

I need it!

[orschiro]

Do we have an existing privacy policy document stating what and how this extension treats personal information?

[rd1]

i am also hoping for the return of Lazarus on chrome.

[orschiro]

For the extension to return and be accepted by the Chrome Webstore, we need a privacy policy document.

[careca1970]

Hi there, I want to support this project, but I have no clue about privacy policy terms, thou... I use Lazarus since very long time on Firefox. Now I switched to Chrome, and got bored to see that it gets discarded by the Webstore people...