[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Bug#827517: Bug#827517: Bug#827517: xul-ext-ublock-origin: Missing icons in uBlock's popup UI

[Sean Whitton]

Dear Evgeny,

On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 09:37:59PM +0300, Evgeny Kapun wrote:
> This bug looks similar to bug #819900. That bug was caused by faulty
> handling of symlinks by Firefox, which Mozilla refuses to fix [1].
> 
> There is a simple workaround: use an absolute symlink instead of a relative one.
> 
> [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1286634

Thanks for this feedback.  Unfortunately, installing an absolute symlink
does not make the problem disappear for firefox-esr, contrary to various
reports in this thread.

If you'd like to try it yourself:

$ sudo apt-get install devscripts
$ sudo apt-get build-dep ublock-origin
$ debcheckout ublock-origin
$ cd ublock-origin
$ origtargz
$ git checkout abs-symlink
$ debuild -b -uc
$ sudo debi

... and fire up Firefox ESR.

-- 
Sean Whitton
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