Hello André,
On Tue, Jan 30 2024, André Batista wrote:
> 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:
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=68298
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
