[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Firefox webext loader seems to refuse to load files from outside of /usr/share/webext

[Ximin Luo]

The new version of firefox (i.e. from the firefox package, not firefox-esr) seems to avoid loading files from outside of /usr/share/webext.

For example webext-umatrix avoids embedding punycode.js, but instead links to it:

$ ls -gG /usr/share/webext/umatrix/lib/
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 2 4096 Feb 21 22:38 diff/
lrwxrwxrwx 1   30 Aug  6  2011 codemirror -> ../../../javascript/codemirror/
-rw-r--r-- 1 9994 Feb 21 22:21 publicsuffixlist.js
lrwxrwxrwx 1   40 Feb 21 23:04 punycode.js -> ../../../javascript/punycode/punycode.js

This works in firefox-esr but not firefox (65), instead in the Browser Console I get:

Loading failed for the <script> with source “moz-extension://62446e26-cedb-4973-97f8-2dddc4c9d55f/lib/punycode.js”.

Any advice on how to work around this?

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