[Bug 226919] www/waterfox extensions.update.url workaround for non-equivalence with Linux at AMO

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            Bug ID: 226919
           Summary: www/waterfox extensions.update.url workaround for
                    non-equivalence with Linux at AMO
           Product: Ports & Packages
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Only Me
          Priority: ---
         Component: Individual Port(s)
          Assignee: jbeich at FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: grahamperrin at gmail.com
             Flags: maintainer-feedback?(jbeich at FreeBSD.org)
          Assignee: jbeich at FreeBSD.org

Created attachment 191806
  --> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=191806&action=edit
A small flood of overdue updates

AFAICT there's an issue (maybe a regression) with AMO that causes Waterfox on
FreeBSD to not receive updates from AMO, if an update is in _some_ way
version-specific. 

https://github.com/Fantastitech/Reddactit/issues/3#issuecomment-375965737 for
example; 
at https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/reddactit/versions/ it: 

> Works with Firefox for Android 48.0 and later, Firefox 48.0 and later 


=====================
extensions.update.url
=====================

In my case, a change from the preset: 

https://versioncheck.addons.mozilla.org/update/VersionCheck.php?reqVersion=%REQ_VERSION%&id=%ITEM_ID%&version=%ITEM_VERSION%&maxAppVersion=%ITEM_MAXAPPVERSION%&status=%ITEM_STATUS%&appID=%APP_ID%&appVersion=%APP_VERSION%&appOS=%APP_OS%&appABI=%APP_ABI%&locale=%APP_LOCALE%&currentAppVersion=%CURRENT_APP_VERSION%&updateType=%UPDATE_TYPE%&compatMode=%COMPATIBILITY_MODE%

– to Linux-specific: 

https://versioncheck.addons.mozilla.org/update/VersionCheck.php?reqVersion=%REQ_VERSION%&id=%ITEM_ID%&version=%ITEM_VERSION%&maxAppVersion=%ITEM_MAXAPPVERSION%&status=%ITEM_STATUS%&appID=%APP_ID%&appVersion=%APP_VERSION%&appOS=Linux&appABI=%APP_ABI%&locale=%APP_LOCALE%&currentAppVersion=%CURRENT_APP_VERSION%&updateType=%UPDATE_TYPE%&compatMode=%COMPATIBILITY_MODE%

– allowed about:addons to find around twenty updates that were previously not
found. 

Tested with 56.0.4.72_1. 

I assume that the workaround will be equally effective with 56.1.0, which I see
has been (experimentally) ported :-)

Edge cases
----------

Where an extension that's served by AMO is _truly_ platform specific, it will
be inappropriate to install a version for Linux, but in my experience those
cases are rare enough to warrant implementing this workaround.


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extensions.update.background.url
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Maybe hard-code that to Linux as well? My gut feeling is, don't.

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