Firefox 115 - Why am I getting Tbird Ads in Firefox asking me to donate? Don't we patch that?
Devs, For the first time I'm had a mozilla ad for thunderbird appear on firefox startup. I though we patched that and the version nag in our openSUSE version? Shouldn't that be disabled by patch for our distribution? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On 2023-08-03 14:30, David C. Rankin wrote:
Devs,
For the first time I'm had a mozilla ad for thunderbird appear on firefox startup. I though we patched that and the version nag in our openSUSE version?
Shouldn't that be disabled by patch for our distribution?
It is simply Thunderbird requesting to open a page in Firefox or perhaps in the default browser. No way to block that. It kicks in when Thunderbird is updated. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)
On 8/4/23 02:23, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2023-08-03 14:30, David C. Rankin wrote:
Devs,
For the first time I'm had a mozilla ad for thunderbird appear on firefox startup. I though we patched that and the version nag in our openSUSE version?
Shouldn't that be disabled by patch for our distribution?
It is simply Thunderbird requesting to open a page in Firefox or perhaps in the default browser. No way to block that. It kicks in when Thunderbird is updated.
If someone knew the message was going to be there and had the time, it wouldn't be too complex to remove the code that requests it. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B
On 8/7/23 00:51, Simon Lees wrote:
On 8/4/23 02:23, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2023-08-03 14:30, David C. Rankin wrote:
Devs,
For the first time I'm had a mozilla ad for thunderbird appear on firefox startup. I though we patched that and the version nag in our openSUSE version?
Shouldn't that be disabled by patch for our distribution?
It is simply Thunderbird requesting to open a page in Firefox or perhaps in the default browser. No way to block that. It kicks in when Thunderbird is updated.
If someone knew the message was going to be there and had the time, it wouldn't be too complex to remove the code that requests it.
The part that is distasteful for a disto package is it nags for money donations. It's not like SUSE/openSUSE doesn't already contribute to mozilla development and we shouldn't have open-source projects nagging for money out of distro packages. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
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