Bug 504306

Summary:	plasma-brower-integration Firefox add-on is outdated on Mozilla's site
Product:	[Plasma] plasma-browser-integration	Reporter:	Shmerl <shtetldik>
Component:	Firefox	Assignee:	Kai Uwe Broulik <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Shmerl 2025-05-16 03:53:41 UTC

I used to install an add-on for Firefox from here:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/plasma-integration/

But now I noticed that Debian started shipping this package:

https://packages.debian.org/unstable/webext-plasma-browser-integration

See the list of files here:

https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/webext-plasma-browser-integration/filelist

Which basically is the same add-on, except it's newer! I.e. one on Mozilla's site wasn't updated almost in a year.

I tried using that, but just having that Debian package installed doesn't make Firefox recognize the presence of the extension for some reason (trying to dig into that in parallel).

My set up:

* Debian testing, KDE Plasma 6.3.4
* Firefox 139.0b8 (Mozilla build)

Can you please update the add-on on Mozilla's site to align it with latest upstream?

Comment 1 Kai Uwe Broulik 2025-05-16 04:05:03 UTC

The Mozilla one *is* the official upstream. 
Whatever Debian is doing is on them.

Comment 2 Shmerl 2025-05-16 04:09:18 UTC

I see. That's indeed very confusing. Looking at the Debian's manifest:

```
  "name": "Plasma Integration",
  "short_name": "Plasma",
  "description": "Provides better integration with the KDE Plasma desktop.",
  "version": "2.0",
```

Which differs from what's on Mozilla's site:

```
  "name": "Plasma Integration",
  "short_name": "Plasma",
  "description": "Provides better integration with the KDE Plasma desktop.",
  "version": "1.9.1",
```

The fact that Debian bumped the major version without upstream doing it is very confusing.

Comment 3 Shmerl 2025-05-16 04:16:23 UTC

Hm, I think I get it. According to this: https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Browser_Integration/Changelog

Version 2.0 is only for Chrome and Edge. And Debian folks seems to have packaged it thinking it would work with Firefox too (I suspect it's simply not compatible).

Comment 4 Kai Uwe Broulik 2025-05-16 04:45:18 UTC

2.0 is technically the latest release but it was mostly a port of manifest v3 for Chrome which we didn't release for Firefox yet because there wasn't really any need (Firefox continues to support Manifest v2)

Comment 5 Shmerl 2025-05-16 05:11:00 UTC

Did you test if 2.0 is working with Firefox though? What Debian installs somehow doesn't.

Filed the bug here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1105848

Comment 6 Kai Uwe Broulik 2025-05-16 06:52:43 UTC

Last time I tried it worked.

Debian has a track record of sabotaging plasma-browser-integration, though, so I am not surprised it is not working. Please stay away from their packaging and use the offiical sources.