[gopher] Firefox killing off plugins -- Future for Overbite?

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Cameron, would you take donations to go towards the complaints campaign? I think beer would assist the complaining long and loud activities substantially. Thoughts?

> From: spectre at floodgap.com
> To: gopher-project at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 14:03:29 -0700
> Subject: Re: [gopher] Firefox killing off plugins -- Future for Overbite?
> 
> > > What does this mean for Overbite's future?  Time to install forg from
> > > the repositories?
> > 
> > I might be off here, but isn't Overbite an *extension*, rather than a
> > *plugin*? (One is C++ written for NPAPI, those they want to get rid of;
> > the other is JavaScript written for browser-specific APIs, those
> > they'll likely keep forever...)
> 
> Correct, plugin != add-on
> 
> I banned plugins from TenFourFox ages ago, but most Firefox add-ons still
> work (at "best effort" support only, but they generally do).
> 
> The biggest threat to OverbiteFF is Mozilla moving away from XUL/XPCOM
> addons to WebExtensions, which lacks most of the direct socket functionality.
> I've complained about this loudly and frequently, and we'll see what they do
> about it.
> 
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