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gnu: torbrowser: noscript gets picked up by icecat

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Message #16 received at 68831-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Clément Lassieur <clement <at> lassieur.org>
To: André Batista <nandre <at> riseup.net>
Cc: Marius Bakke <marius <at> gnu.org>, 68831-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#68831: gnu: torbrowser: noscript gets picked up by icecat
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:59:36 +0100

On Wed, Jan 31 2024, André Batista wrote:

> Hi Clément,
>
> qua 31 jan 2024 às 03:19:26 (1706681966), clement <at> lassieur.org enviou:
>> Hello André,
>> 
>> I thought about it, and I even started working on a fix.  But I stopped
>> working on it because I thought it added too much complexity for too
>> little gain.  See:
>> 
>> https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=68298
>
> Oh, I had missed that, I'm sorry for the noise. I had checked guix-bug
> only before submitting this report.
>
>> The default for Tor Browser and Mullvad Browser is that extensions are
>> not working because tabs are private.  Now if a user uses both Icecat
>> and Tor Browser and want a different set of extensions for each of them,
>> they can use 'guix shell', which works perfectly well.  (They can also
>> still add extensions to the Firefox profile.)  Having 4 versions of each
>> extension seems cumbersome.
>
> I concur to your reasoning, it's easy for users to avoid it if they do
> care. You may close this as wontfix.

Ok!  Closing.

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