Bug#648175: closed by Mike Hommey <glandium at debian.org> (Bug#656378: fixed in iceweasel 10.0.2-1)

Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Sat Feb 18 06:52:55 UTC 2012


On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 04:07:10AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> Hey Mike.
> 
> Your changelog entry:
> >  * browser/app/profile/firefox.js: Don't auto-disable extensions
> >in system
> >    directories. Closes: #656378 and friends.
> 
> Seems to only solve the first of my mentioned points, not the other,
> i.e.:
> - It seems that Firefox tries to upgrade Debian-packaged add ons
> with the web-versions, if something newer is enabled.
>   It's totally unclear to me, whether this is secure then (like
> Debian packages are secured by signatres), so I always
>   manually disable this.
>   I think however it should be the default, that Debian package
> based addons are not automatically upgraded.
> 
> 
> Shall I reopen, to keep track on this?

This part is not exactly new, and not related. There may even be another
bug about it.

Mike





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