TLS for legacy browser

[andika207]

Please add support for legacy browsers (Firefox forks) and make a XPI file for manual download.

[d7415]

For legacy browsers you may want to look at https://github.com/sibiantony/ssleuth, which I believe was the inspiration for this add on.

[andika207]

@d7415 There is no xpi file for download and I have managed to download it through the 'web archive' but the link is broken
http://web.archive.org/web/20180730040927/https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ssleuth/versions/

edit: I have updated the classic addons archive and I could download it. thanks.

[rugk]

Yep, see sibiantony/ssleuth#89.

So I think this issue can be closed.

[andika207]

@rugk why closed ? the deprecated ssleuth addon is not working as intended
my goal is to convince someone to port this up to date indicatetls addon to the legacy Firefox versions.

[rugk]

This is unlikely to happen, yet alone because of the effort you have to put into that with only a small user base, which would want that. So either you'd do that, or – better – switch to a maintained up-to-date Firefox version, which supports WebExtension. One should not use old browser versions anyway, as they contain security issues etc.

[andika207]

@rugk I can't use the browser I want because only a handful are still compatible with XP.
as for security issues I don't care as I see other people getting infected on W10 with miner virus for example
if I was any good on coding I might do it myself and convert the source code into a XPI file

[andika207]

@rugk Mozilla team is not smart enough, the fact of dropping the support for XP makes their market share smaller and smaller every day because most people don't know other official alternatives for XP and then have to switch over to W7 and there you have a bunch of great chromium alternatives.
Thanks to @roytam1 we can still use an unofficial Firefox fork on XP.

[d7415]

This is getting wildly off topic, but in short:

• This extension uses the WebExtensions APIs, which are not in older versions of Firefox. Changing this would require a complete rewrite, which isn't going to happen for a handful of users.
• ssleuth, as linked, supports the old APIs and the author explained to you in that linked issue how to build it from source.
• Windows XP and Windows 7 are both unsupported by Microsoft.

If, after all that, you choose not to use a supported operating system, the browser for which this extension is designed or read up on the basics of building XPI extensions, I don't think any of us can help you.

[andika207]

@d7415 I need a tutorial for dummies if it was so simple to create addons from the source code I would have not asked him @sibiantony but anyway he never replied back.
not sure what the M$ support has to do in this matter...
if Mozilla had maintained the support to XP till web extensions release now I would not be here wasting my time or bothering others

[TPS]

@andika207 https://github.com/gavinhungry/cipherfox ?

[andika207]

I have downloaded the ''cipherfox'' but it's pure junk. @gavinhungry
the ''indicatetls'' addon looks like a fork of the deprecated ''SSleuth'' @sibiantony

[gavinhungry]

@andika207,

Thank you for your thoughtful, detailed and timely review of CipherFox.

Please note that CipherFox has not been updated in almost 5 years, and for good reason - it was written as an XUL extension, which has not been supported in Firefox starting from version 57.

@rugk and @d7415 remain entirely correct here.

[andika207]

I could not care less whether or not cipherfox has been updated.
SSleuth can be installed on FF52 however it doesn't work with other forks which are supposedly built upon FF68...