Bug#919458: RFP: cookie-autodelete -- delete cookies not used by any open tab
[adding #908285 to CC, moving #919458 to BCC]
Hi Christoph,
(I think you wanted #908285, not #919458 here. Resending to all
all on your behalf…)
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Sean Whitton wrote...
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
>
> * Package name : cookie-autodelete
> Version : 2.2.0
> Upstream Author : Name <somebody@example.org>
To be precise: Kenny Do <contact@kennydo.com>
> * URL : https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete
> * License : MIT
> Programming Lang: JavaScript webext
> Description : delete cookies not used by any open tab
>
> This is a useful replacement for xul-ext-self-destructing-cookies, which
doesn't work with the new Firefox ESR 60.0.
Indeed, and that's why I spent a few hours on this.
Summary, it's not that easy.
Here are my findings so other people have to go throught this again: The
pre-compiled .xpi contains a bundles/ subdirectory which is essential
for cookie-autodelete to work.
These files are missing in the sources, and if I understand correctly,
they are gathered when building using npm - while in the Debian
ecosystem they should rather be shipped by other packages. One of them
might be node-react which hasn't reached testing yet and I'm not sure
whether it will in time for buster freeze.
Minor issue: dh_webext installs the files in an "extensions/"
subdirectory where firefox will not find the extensions. Might require
some tweaking but is not a blocker.
So I'll give up on this for the moment. If anybody else feels
comfortable to continue, go ahead.
Christoph
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