gnu: torbrowser: noscript gets picked up by icecat

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  • Clément Lassieur
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André Batista wrote on 30 Jan 15:56 -0800
(address . bug-guix@gnu.org)
ZbmMkH89XV98LgVg@andel
Hi guix!

It seems that 'make-icecat-extension' is not sufficiently kosher. When
torbrowser and icecat are both installed to the same user profile,
noscript gets picked up by icecat too. The same also happens when
mullvadbrowser is installed: ublock extension is picked up by torbrowser.

Considering there is also a patch to add Librewolf to guix, which will
probably also share the same extensions when installed on the same
profile, I'm unsure if the proper way to solve this issue is to write
similar make-{$browser_name}-extension procedures or to change the
package definitions for those new browsers.

WDYT?
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Clément Lassieur wrote on 30 Jan 18:19 -0800
(name . André Batista)(address . nandre@riseup.net)
87fryedz2p.fsf@lassieur.org
Hello André,

On Tue, Jan 30 2024, André Batista wrote:

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> Hi guix!
>
> It seems that 'make-icecat-extension' is not sufficiently kosher. When
> torbrowser and icecat are both installed to the same user profile,
> noscript gets picked up by icecat too. The same also happens when
> mullvadbrowser is installed: ublock extension is picked up by torbrowser.
>
> Considering there is also a patch to add Librewolf to guix, which will
> probably also share the same extensions when installed on the same
> profile, I'm unsure if the proper way to solve this issue is to write
> similar make-{$browser_name}-extension procedures or to change the
> package definitions for those new browsers.
>
> WDYT?

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:


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.

Cheers,
Clément
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André Batista wrote on 31 Jan 07:13 -0800
(name . Clément Lassieur)(address . clement@lassieur.org)
ZbpjjdGB3bGIhFBt@andel
Hi Cl�ment,

qua 31 jan 2024 �s 03:19:26 (1706681966), clement@lassieur.org enviou:
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> Hello Andr�,
>
> 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.

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> 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.

Cheers,

Andr�
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Clément Lassieur wrote on 31 Jan 07:59 -0800
(name . André Batista)(address . nandre@riseup.net)
87o7d1ebo7.fsf@lassieur.org
On Wed, Jan 31 2024, André Batista wrote:

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> Hi Clément,
>
> qua 31 jan 2024 às 03:19:26 (1706681966), clement@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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Clément Lassieur wrote on 31 Jan 08:03 -0800
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(address . control@debbugs.gnu.org)
87il39ebh6.fsf@lassieur.org
tags 68831 wontfix
merge 68831 68298
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