Please demote xul-ext-ubufox from Firefox Recommends to Suggests

Bug #1274605 reported by Rohan Garg
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
firefox (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

xul-ext-ubufox is pulled in by Kubuntu at the moment but serves little to no advantages for us. We already have a notification helper that notifies the user for restarting the system or applications when the application has been upgraded, and we have a software notification helper for installing things like flash and other plugins.

It would be useful for Kubuntu if xul-ext-ubufox was demoted from a Recommends to a Suggest and a flavor could then include it in their seeds.

Tags: bionic xenial
Rohan Garg (rohangarg)
description: updated
Rohan Garg (rohangarg)
Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
milestone: none → ubuntu-14.04-feature-freeze
tags: added: kubuntu
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Rohan Garg (rohangarg)
Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
milestone: ubuntu-14.04-feature-freeze → none
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Rohan Garg (rohangarg) wrote :

Poke?

Wes (wesinator)
tags: added: bionic
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Wes (wesinator) wrote :

These is even more relevant in 18.04 Bionic now that XUL extensions like Ubufox are no longer even supported in Firefox since 57.

xul-ext-ubufox should no longer be installed by default.

Wes (wesinator)
tags: added: xenial
removed: kubuntu
Revision history for this message
Paul White (paulw2u) wrote :

According to the changelog, since 2017.11.10 this is an empty package.

The package seems to be have been retained for possible future use.

Closing as invalid as its installation will currently have no discernable affect to anyone installing Firefox.

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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