Flagfox DB Updating

[Moonchild]

Bottom line: someone will have to fork it if license permits.

@NullDereference
Replying to @palemoonbrowser

Using Firefox 60 ESR or a fork based on it is required for continued access to security updates. Asking a single developer of free software to support phased-out APIs that are incompatible with everything new for years after the (painful) transition is an unreasonable request.

[Moonchild]

And for some reason the dev suddenly is spitting venom in our direction on twitter, when all I asked was if the extension is Open Source, i.e. if it can be forked:

You can't even type the name of the addon properly. Open source is not supposed to mean "fork you". There is no future for XUL-based addons; please accept this basic reality. Any Gecko-based browser that does not upgrade to an ESR 60+ basis is defunct.

https://twitter.com/NullDereference/sta ... 1352748034

Feel free to give him some feedback. I'm definitely going to see if the license allows forking, as in... right now.

[Moonchild]

License permits forking but you MUST immediately re-brand it, remove all references to Flagfox, the name and logo, and you have to build your own geo DB (using Flagfox's DB is not allowed as Dave holds it under proprietary copyright).

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[back2themoon]

...and you have to build your own geo DB...

Makes me wonder how demanding this would be. Are there any global listings or sth. available that get regularly updated and one "just" needs to pull the data periodically to the local extension? Or perhaps Flagfox connects on-the-fly to such online databases?

[Moonchild]

...and you have to build your own geo DB...

Makes me wonder how demanding this would be. Are there any global listings or sth. available that get regularly updated and one "just" needs to pull the data periodically to the local extension? Or perhaps Flagfox connects on-the-fly to such online databases?

As far as I've understood for a simple geoDB lookup on country that Flagfox does, you can just use the free-for-noncommercial-use GeoLite2 by MaxMind. So that would be pretty much plug and play for updates.

[John connor]

Well, in light of that venom, I'd say screw that, dude. I look forward to some kind of XUL fork if at all possible.

[John connor]

He's gone ahead and updated again. Had to use this hack to get it back to work. There must be a better alternative.

[Moonchild]

5.2.11 works just fine for me, really. I switched off updates for it.

[John connor]

I switched off updates for it.

Now that I never thought of. Did so now. But, are you missing out on updated IP databases? Since every time this add-on was updated I updated the databases as well.

[Moonchild]

It's quite possible it's not as accurate as it could be, but in general geolocation of large IP blocks doesn't change, and I just use it as an indicator (and if I need more info I can always just look it up from one of the available links). I just don't think considering the track record of the extension breaking that automatic updates are something I want to have for this particular one