[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] iceweasel extensions wishlist

[intrigeri]

Hi,

Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote (14 May 2009 11:55:27 GMT) :
> On 05/13/2009 06:46 AM, intrigeri at boum.org wrote:
>> a privacy-enhancing Live OS, similar to Incognito [1] but based on
>> debian-live, would hugely benefit of some new Iceweasel extensions
>> being packaged in Debian:

(OT: this Live OS is now released : https://amnesia.boum.org/)

>>   - CS Lite [3]

> this one is intriguing. why pick it over the other cookie managers?

It was recommended to me by I-don't-remember-who-but-someone-trustworthy.
Tried it, liked it, got used to it, never looked elsewhere since.
If someone was going to package such a cookie manager adapted to the
Live OS case (read bellow), we may want to do a bit of research and
maybe pick a better one.

> I'm used to doing right-click anywhere in the page, "View Page
> Info", Permissions to set cookie preferences myself, no
> extensions needed.

Sure, but a Live CD is a bit different: as it does not save anything,
it forgets your personal preferences every time you use it, so there
really is a need for a two-click way to allow cookies for a given
website (say your preferred webmail provider). I tried the "View Page
Info" way, and find it too annoying when you boot a Live CD once a day
and use every time a few trusted websites that require cookies to
be set.

>>   - SSL Blacklist [4]

> last time i looked into this, there was a serious licensing problem, and
> it looks like it still exists:
[...]
> Also, i'd prefer to see such a blacklist extension in debian that
> directly uses the contents of openssl-blacklist{,-extra}, rather
> than re-shipping the whole list.
[...]

Agreed. Anyway, it seems like such an extension is not so useful
anymore : it's becoming really hard to find a website still using
a black-listed certificate. So I guess we'll forget about this one.

Bye,
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