Re: [arch-general] opinion request about Firefox add-ons

2016-02-01 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 02/01/2016 09:46 AM, Jonathan Roemer wrote: > On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 01:52:03AM -0500, Eli Schwartz wrote: >> Way to go on not answering the question in any way, shape, or form... > > uBlock Origin [random screed follows] > > As the user's current Adblock Plus solution is broken, and they > s

Re: [arch-general] opinion request about Firefox add-ons

2016-02-01 Thread Jonathan Roemer
On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 01:52:03AM -0500, Eli Schwartz wrote: > Way to go on not answering the question in any way, shape, or form... uBlock Origin is a less resource intensive, more thorough solution than Adblock Plus. The relevant performance statistics are below. https://github.com/gorhill/uBl

Re: [arch-general] opinion request about Firefox add-ons

2016-02-01 Thread Jens Adam
Mon, 1 Feb 2016 09:46:33 -0500 Jonathan Roemer : > On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 01:52:03AM -0500, Eli Schwartz wrote: > > Way to go on not answering the question in any way, shape, or form... > > uBlock Origin [blurp] Again, this thread is not a discussion about add-ons, but what to do about Mozilla'

Re: [arch-general] opinion request about Firefox add-ons

2016-02-01 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 01/31/2016 11:52 AM, Jonathan Roemer wrote: > On Sun, 2016-01-31 at 11:45 -0500, Francis Gerund wrote: >> is there a better idea? >> Any opinions? > > uBlock Origin > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/ > Way to go on not answering the question in any way, shape, or

Re: [arch-general] opinion request about Firefox add-ons

2016-02-01 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 01/31/2016 01:32 PM, Sebastiaan Lokhorst wrote: > I think everyone is missing the point: the firefox-adblock-plus package[1] > is broken since it does not work with the latest version of Firefox. > It should probably be dropped from the repositories. I've opened a bug > report.[1] > > [1] https

Re: [arch-general] opinion request about Firefox add-ons

2016-01-31 Thread Attila
On Sun, 31 Jan 2016 19:25:56 +0100 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > For me duckduckgo is completely useless. You never use '!archpkg firefox' or '!archwiki firefox'? The nice thing about duckduckgo is the use of bangs (and for me that i don't need to remember the original url :) ). > However, I'm not talki

Re: [arch-general] opinion request about Firefox add-ons

2016-01-31 Thread Sebastiaan Lokhorst
I think everyone is missing the point: the firefox-adblock-plus package[1] is broken since it does not work with the latest version of Firefox. It should probably be dropped from the repositories. I've opened a bug report.[1] [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/47970

Re: [arch-general] opinion request about Firefox add-ons

2016-01-31 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 31 Jan 2016 18:38:15 +0100, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: >duckduckgo For me duckduckgo is completely useless. >ixquick Most of the times I'm using startpage. However, I'm not talking about the Google search engine, but about "safe browsing" and other Google features used by Firefox. I wou

Re: [arch-general] opinion request about Firefox add-ons

2016-01-31 Thread Doug Newgard
On Sun, 31 Jan 2016 18:38:15 +0100 Elmar Stellnberger wrote: > Am 2016-01-31 um 18:07 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > > On Sun, 31 Jan 2016 17:58:57 +0100, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: > >> Besides this I would suggest some improvements in the default settings > > > > Defaults that differ from Upstream,

Re: [arch-general] opinion request about Firefox add-ons

2016-01-31 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 31 Jan 2016 12:15:13 -0500, Jonathan Roemer wrote: >On Sun, 2016-01-31 at 18:07 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> I guess Arch users expect to get defaults that most closely >> correspond to Upstream. > >Yes. The relevant bug report is here. >https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/45900 To disable

Re: [arch-general] opinion request about Firefox add-ons

2016-01-31 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Am 2016-01-31 um 18:07 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: On Sun, 31 Jan 2016 17:58:57 +0100, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: Besides this I would suggest some improvements in the default settings Defaults that differ from Upstream, such as removing everything Google related from about:config or what kind of "im

Re: [arch-general] opinion request about Firefox add-ons

2016-01-31 Thread Jonathan Roemer
On Sun, 2016-01-31 at 18:07 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I guess Arch > users expect to get defaults that most closely correspond to Upstream. Yes. The relevant bug report is here. https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/45900 This was also covered in a mailing list thread earlier this month. https://lis

Re: [arch-general] opinion request about Firefox add-ons

2016-01-31 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 31 Jan 2016 17:58:57 +0100, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: >Besides this I would suggest some improvements in the default settings Defaults that differ from Upstream, such as removing everything Google related from about:config or what kind of "improvements"? I guess Arch users expect to get de

Re: [arch-general] opinion request about Firefox add-ons

2016-01-31 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Am 2016-01-31 um 17:45 schrieb Francis Gerund: Hi. Firefox 44.0 does not seem to allow installing the firefox-adblock-plus addon package from the Arch community repository. Instead, Firefox states that it only allows addons "signed" by Mozilla to be installed. That seems to exclude the package

Re: [arch-general] opinion request about Firefox add-ons

2016-01-31 Thread Jonathan Roemer
On Sun, 2016-01-31 at 11:45 -0500, Francis Gerund wrote: > is there a better idea? > Any opinions? uBlock Origin https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[arch-general] opinion request about Firefox add-ons

2016-01-31 Thread Francis Gerund
Hi. Firefox 44.0 does not seem to allow installing the firefox-adblock-plus addon package from the Arch community repository. Instead, Firefox states that it only allows addons "signed" by Mozilla to be installed. That seems to exclude the package mentioned. I could install the adblock-plus add