Bug#881887: firefox: breaks more or less all xul-ext*

[Mike Hommey]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 03:04:40AM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> Package: firefox
> Version: 57.0-1
> 
> 
> Hey.
> 
> Since Mozilla decided to throw away countless of extensions which make
> actually make FF at least somewhat useable and safe (no script, tabmix+,
> https everywhere, status bar 4 eva... ), well at least until all these
> convert to the new framework as far as this is possible,... most of these
> got basically broken in FF57.
> 
> Shouldn't the package have breaks against the respective Debian packages?
> That would help users to see that their stuff won't work anymore when they
> update.

$ apt-cache search xul-ext | wc -l
80

That doesn't sound like a great idea.

Mike