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FireGPG and Firefox 4

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 20:22:47 +0000

Hello,

Unfortunaly, FireGPG won’t work in Firefox 4 because of the missing IPC library. There is no easy way to fix the problem. If you’re able to build a library (please see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68702), feel free to post an howto !

Bests,

Comments

Yes, I represent a community that would be willing to fund continued development of this tool.

I certainly hope that this project was not discontinued because of political or corporate pressure. This tool has been a very useful in the protection of individual privacy in the last few years.

We definitely need a similar tool for other browsers, but right now Firefox is the best for freedom.

Admin, 2011-05-24 22:05:01

I have Firefox 4 installed on Gentoo Linux and it claims to have built the IPC library, but FireGPG doesn’t work anyway.

Jack, 2011-05-31 04:08:22

I’m reading that for Firefox 5 (released today), the IPC library is required:

http://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2011/05/four-ever-yours.html

(Apparently it’s compiled in then?)

I tried hacking the FireGPG .xpi’s maxversion to 5 to install it; it installed but couldn’t locate the IPC library when I ran it. Apparently it would need other work to be compatible or functional with firefox 5.

I don’t know how to make that work; I’m hoping a visitor or this here thar original author of this plugin does.

Alex, 2011-06-22 07:25:52

The plugin was patched on the forked version on Github to work with FF 4.0.1:

https://github.com/firegpg/firegpg

However, Mozilla broke it again for FF5.

Scanman1, 2011-06-28 21:38:06

FireGPG works on Firefox 5 now:

https://grepular.com/FireGPG_on_Firefox_5

Mike, 2011-07-06 10:50:43

Can someone use the firefox add-on and create a grease monkey script for GNUPG/GPG4WIN, which would function like FireGPG when using Gmail?

The only script grease monkey has close to this is this:

http://www.langenhoven.com/code/emailencrypt/gmailencrypt.php

Only thing is, it is weak encryption. But it does integrate nicely with Gmail.

Ditto, 2011-06-24 07:45:21

I posted about this on Slashdot, and the main site is now slashdotted:

http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2277556&cid=36602002

Scanman1, 2011-06-28 21:39:48

I am really missing fireGPG, can someone be paid to maintain this? Can something be done?

andrewmuck, 2011-05-20 16:19:54

the bug link you sent is ‘resolved fixed’ https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68702

Now can anything be done easily? please reply.

Saga, 2011-06-05 08:55:06

FireGPG discontinued

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 05:47:36 +0000

Today I released the version 0.8 of FireGPG. I removed Gmail support and since I don’t have anymore time to work on FireGPG I put it officially in ‘discontinued’ state.

I updated locates with latest translations and every other features of FireGPG (eg.inline features, key management) will still work.

Gmail support was too hackish and I’m not using Gmail for a long time, so… I’m tired of constantly adapt FireGPG for Gmail’s update, getting mail and mail about the same problem. Sorry.

FireGPG was my first released-and-used project with more than 555000 installations since version 0.4.5 and ~30’000 regular users (who update the extension). A lot of work has been spend on it and the project is now more than 3 years old. That great :)

Thanks everyone for bugs reports, features suggestions, patches, donations and.. using it (“.)

Comments

great job…..too bad you quit, expectially if your worked harder because of gmail… sure it s hackish and its stupid to use gmail and wanning it to be secure… every body know gmail its google and it mean now safe !!! stop working on gmail and please keep on your project……. come on …. security and gmail are not compatible weak up….

ilonna, 2011-01-01 19:08:21

Thank you for a GREAT FF extension and all the time and work you spent in the development.

And double thanks for your kindness in letting your fans know that you cannot carry on development. There are many software developers who are not so caring as you and leave their users wondering the dark..

All the best

vava, 2010-07-17 06:34:14

I loved FireGPG.

It’d be okay to drop Gmail support. As has been said above, many privacy minded people don’t use gmail anyway or can switch to a different service. But dropping the entire plugin is a shame. IMO, this is one of the top 3 best firefox plugins (Yslow & firebug being the others)!

Rich, 2010-08-05 19:50:51

Oh noes :(( I was so happy to find this, only to discover it was already discontinued. I really need something like the InLine function of this plugin for a website I’m developing. Please, someone, continue to maintain this plugin, it is of great value.

Harry, 2011-02-07 01:31:26

Hello Maximilien!

I would love to talk with you about taking over as the projects maintainer. Email white . armor @ gmail . com

Thanks! —–BEGIN PGP MESSAGE—– Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux)

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Jordan, 2010-08-24 19:53:12

thx man!

i rly love this plugin :-)

Netbook Test, 2011-09-13 19:37:19

OMG this is such a huge loss to the community. I cant express how thankful I was for this being developed and now I’m so sad to see it die. This was the one unifying interface for PGP across all three platforms. Ugh!!! Someone please pick this up and bring it back to life! Drop gmail and just stick to the standard inline stuff. Shoot, even just using the editor is fine because of the cross platform-ness!

Julian Tosh, 2010-06-11 06:47:26

Puxa…justo agora que eu havia descoberto este add-on!

Embora não tenha chegado a usar este programa obrigado pelo esforço!

Tks anyway

Victor, 2010-09-30 23:15:40

Sad to see it die()..

Sepehr Lajevardi, 2010-09-14 23:02:32

I’d give $30 to have it working with gmail again. Who else is with me on it?

j, 2010-10-16 05:55:40

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Webmail emails mit pgp verschlüsseln » Sebastian Thiele, 2011-03-04 16:30:02

Thanks Maximilien for all the hard work you’ve been doing. FireGPG is important part of our system so I definitely hope someone will pick it up from where you left off. Though I double gmail unsupport, I never really used it for that anyway, but I did see how much trouble it was causing to you.

Cheers!

Aurimas M, 2010-06-08 17:27:30

That’s unfortunate. I was content with the inline GPG processing although Gmail support was nice, got used to not using it as much as just manually encrypting the message. I hope someone can carry on this idea. Any takers?

antitree, 2010-06-08 17:50:40

Thanks again!

I didn’t actually use firegpg as much as I would have liked to. I had a lot more ideas for it than I ever had a chance to investigate. I tried briefly to find a not too painful way to use it with Google Wave. However, it turned out to be cumbersome.

Its too bad, this is exactly the sort of thing that is needed to actually bring security to webmail clients. Its nice that nobody can read your SSL connection but… why should I have to trust my webmail provider with the content of the mail?

I hope that somebody takes up the torch on this one. Has anyone expressed interest?

Steve, 2010-06-08 20:28:00

Thanks for all the work you did with the plugin. I hope someone picks up where you left off, and that your future projects are fun too!

Jonathan A, 2010-06-08 18:54:48

Aww, what?! I just installed this a week ago. Hah. Oh, well. I appreciate the work none the less. Best wishes.

just b, 2010-06-08 21:13:35

God how I miss this. :(

Bryn, 2011-04-01 07:33:45

[…] there any solution to integrate GPG with GMail? FireGPG has been discontinued and the last version did not support […]

GPG-Gmail integration? Drija, 2010-11-13 19:41:31

I am so sorry to hear FireGPG is discontinued. I am so thankful for your great job. A must to have ! If that is life I still hope there will be the chance to see you handling it again and continue..(forget Gmail). Thanks again for your work.

Andreas, 2010-06-29 18:37:36

Hey, you did a great job so far, i’m pretty sad to learn this but we can’t really ask you more than all that years, so, thank you very much for all the great job guy !!

DTH, 2010-06-07 15:26:43

That’s such a shame, as it’s an awesome addon. I wish I had the programming expertise to carry on developing this program.

Dennis, 2010-06-07 10:56:34

Thanks for your hard work and good luck with your future projects!

Hans, 2010-06-07 10:58:14

Many thanks for FireGPG. It was very good indeed for me, as a Gmail user, and I’m sorry to see it go.

Best, Dominik

Dominik, 2010-06-07 10:59:09

I’m very sad to see this go, I guess I will need to carry my netbook more often with Thunderbird and enigmail.

It’s been a good run, I too hated the constant gmail changes but it was still somewhat useful at times. Well At least I still use it to sign texts.

Casey, 2010-06-07 14:16:50

I have Open Source projects available at Internet. I know the problems and difficulties to make it. So, I understand your decision and would like to say thanks a lot for your nice work.

Good lucky!

Regards,

Eriberto - Brazil

Eriberto Mota, 2010-06-07 14:29:45

Hey, did you consider giving Flattr a shot? I am pretty sure a good bunch of peaople would be willing to throw money into the right direction.

-jsl

jsilence, 2010-06-07 14:38:08

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O fim do FireGPG | Eriberto Blog, 2010-06-07 14:39:02

I just installed firegpg a week ago, but i’d like to thank you for donating your time and devoloping firegpg:-)

tim, 2010-06-07 14:59:38

Could somebody take this project ? It is most useful to ensure privacy. I would appreciate if somebody could continue.

Le Barde.

Le Barde, 2010-08-31 09:54:49

Yet another user very sorry to see this go.I understand there has to be balance in life, and devoting time and energy has to show a return on the investment made. May I wish you all the best going forward, and looking to see what else you craft over time.

Abe A., 2010-06-17 11:18:38

Yet another user very sorry to see this go. I have yet to encrypt or sign a single email exchanged with another user, but I had hoped that I had found the right tool to start introducing the concepts to my friends and family.

Thanks again for all your work. Perhaps someone can keep it going on Google Code or Sourceforge.

Steve, 2010-06-10 14:36:30

Well, I’m also another user who liked it although the small problems it had, so all I can say is thank you for the time you spent on this project. All I hope is that somebody may retake it later as that’s the good thing of Free Software.

klondike, 2010-06-08 02:41:11

Thanks for your work, fantastic plugin and sad to hear its discontinued!

kailden, 2010-06-08 04:22:23

I completely understand that you and FireGPG have gone separate ways.

Sorry to hear it, but such is life.

Thank you for your work, and for the fact that FireGPG filled a niche that I will miss. Maybe the next person to write such an application can begin where you left off, rather than starting from scratch.

Like others here, it worked for me. Thank you again.

Bob_Robertson, 2010-06-08 04:27:26

Really sorry to hear this I really loved FireGPG and have used it since day one. I really wish you would have continued to support it but as your time is not free, as no ones is I understand. Thanks for all the hard work you put into this software over the years. I would have loved if you continued supporting it just without the gmail function all together, as in my opinion all the most users don’t use gmail anyway. Regardless thanks again, your work didn’t go un-appreciated. Best of luck to you in your future endeavors.

-Bajing

Bajing, 2010-06-08 05:34:40

It’s the worst news for me.

Today, the office network is monitored by someone. And, firegpg comes out at my first thought. But, it can not be found in firefox’s plugins.

What a day!

HeartBroken, 2011-01-14 03:47:18

Sorry to hear that, hope in near future you get back on the developing or anyone else do it :)

Maybe with this loss someone will get your work and make it better. That’s the best part of being an Open Source Software.

Proudly User of FireGPG since 2007-8. Hope you get all the things you want in your life, and hope I get those for me 2.

A big thank you for the efforts you have maded on this project and i really, sincerely hope you get back on it in near future! :))

SGeK, 2010-06-08 01:42:11

thanks for your work - always loved to read about the progress. i guess your english improved a lot throughout the process ;)

keep up your good work! flow

flow, 2010-06-17 07:09:49

I have really enjoyed using Firegpg. I hate to see it go and mostly I hate to see your hard work passed by. If you have any other projects let me know and I will try to assist you anyway I can. Thanks.

David Britt, 2010-08-03 06:53:36

Still love this tool, despite the discontinuation!

Thanks for your hard work, it was well worth it!

Peter Peerdeman, 2010-06-11 12:11:43

Sorry for hear that. Could you publish all the sources code in SF, Launchpad, or somewhere else where someones find a way to give it continuity.

Braiam, 2010-07-11 14:13:10

Thanks for your hard work on this awesome add-on. FireGPG is great. Hope more people help to improve this tool.

Jim, 2010-06-07 18:20:58

Your work is appreciated! Good luck and prosperity.

Boris DeLaine, 2010-06-13 20:15:52

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وابسته به کاربران یا به شرکت‌های تجاری؟ « من و لینوکس, 2010-11-27 19:00:24

So long and thanks for all the fish! FireGPG was one of the must-have plugins for firefox. Hope someone else steps up and continues it…

thanks for all your hard work

kargig, 2010-06-07 18:02:29

Too bad to see it go, realy made life easier. Thanks for all the work!

KwukDuck, 2010-07-30 18:15:44

too bad, i prefer using this stuff than enigmail on thunderbird.

Thank’s for all your great work!

t0m, 2010-07-30 20:16:59

I am like many others are saddened by the new i have tried to get it from git but cant why not use sourceforge In stead as users who are not developers can access it

Glen Turnbull, 2010-07-20 13:11:42

So long and thanks for all the fish…

It was a really nice plugin…I hope GMAIL can “copy” this idea in its Labs…

–AceKing

Andres, 2010-06-07 20:57:11

:‘(

modchan, 2010-06-08 01:14:14

good luck andf thanks for your job.

Firegpg has been a must have for years.

David, 2010-06-08 00:06:36

Thanks for your efforts, your extension makes GPG much more accessible and usable and that should not be underestimated. If you every rethink your decision to discontinue it I would suggest losing the gmail functionality altogether and focus on the other functions you can maintain control over.

Frank, 2010-06-08 00:55:50

Great job done… sorry for the ending…

undaverse, 2010-11-11 13:04:22

Sorry to see it go. The bugs were irrelevant compared to being able to use PGP with webmail.

Todd Walsh, 2010-11-10 08:57:15

I hope the project be reborn again. thank’s for the great job.!

cheluskis, 2010-06-09 07:16:09

I’m very sorry for that. Good luck

Alex, 2010-06-09 11:31:17

I see a lot of people being sorry about seeing FireGPG go, how about we stop being sorry users and contribute more to the project instead. You don’t want to see it go then contribute to the code!!!!

Just ME, 2010-12-12 22:00:09

Instead of trying to integrate with the GMAIL interface it would better if copy and pasting was automated.

jago25_98 at hotmail, 2011-01-17 15:57:43

Thanks for all of your hard work, FireGPG will be sorely missed.

andy, 2010-06-10 05:39:41

I too am terribly saddened to see this one go. I wish there was a place where all of us could go and each contribute a little to have you maintain this program. I am totally at a loss.

But THANK YOU for your efforts! It is easy to understand how gmail drove you as the developer of this project to the brink, and I’m sorry for my part in that, since my wish would be to keep using the gmail web interface (Its soooo easy!), but also the contradictory desire to start using keys with as many friends as possible….. guess I will have to learn thunderbird!

saddened, 2011-02-24 03:46:16

First, thanks for all the hard work. I used FireGPG when it first came out for INLINE encryption successfully not only with GMail but also with Yahoo & HotMail successfully. INLINE only was not the problem many think it was - GPGOL also does only INLINE and Thunderbird + Enigmail can handle it. Signing was always a problem no matter what webmail service was being used. That was not your fault - the webmail kept putting in specious characters into the message AFTER the signing was done. The webmail interfaces also did it after encryption some of the time but signing was impossible because they always threw in those extra characters. I tried telling others that at the start of the FireGPG project but my message probably got lost in all of the excitement. But as long as you just used the main FireGPG controls and ignored what they kept changing in GMail it worked to send INLINE encrypted messages unless the web-mail inserted characters fouled up the decryption (usually they didn’t). I never did use the FireGPG controls you built into GMail itself since keeping track of those which were always changing and the ones I used for HotMail & Yahoo required too much effort. So I just used the same generic controls you provided for all of the WebMail services. Thanks for all the hard work.

Henry Hertz Hobbit, 2010-07-10 18:38:56

Hy dude,

I really sorry about this news. I like this project and use it everyday.

But I thanks you by you had lead this project by your limit.

Congratulations and I hope someday you can continue it again.

Welington, 2010-06-25 18:11:22

Bummer.

I only recently learned about FireGPG and was looking forward to using it. We desperately need a way to work with strong encryption in web space beyond just the “cathedral” style of the current PKI suite of functions and key sets.

Sir Santa VM Cowboy, 2010-07-18 04:00:11

i need this for a website i was thinking of, if i don’t find something similar i’m developing it :D

aza, 2011-02-14 14:35:08

This sure is a bad news, this piece of sotware was a must and was really usefull for who wanted to protect its privacy. Question then now is who’s willing to maintain it?

tata, 2010-06-13 11:51:30

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User-friendly PKI: not yet « Emphatic Nonsense, 2010-11-12 22:16:05

Hey,

sorry to hear that. You did a great job so far. Guess it’s time to switch away from webinterfaces back to email clients with gpg support.

Thanks for you time and hard work!

Florian S., 2010-06-07 09:10:07

Sad to see it go, I loved FireGPG despite its bugs.

Nick Wilkie, 2010-06-07 09:11:46

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Thanks a lot, works fine for me. Sorry to hear discontinue.

Jens, 2010-06-07 09:28:34

We will miss this plugin. It eased my life a lot. It is a pity.

sKUrZ0, 2010-06-07 09:53:54

firegpg is one of 5 musthave-ff-plugins for me. so im also very sorry to hear it will not activly developed further.

anyway thx for the great job you did so far!

Patrick, 2010-06-07 09:58:38

Sorry to hear about that. What are you doing for a living? Perhaps firegpg development could be part of you day job…

I know of some companies who will miss this tool.

Anonymous Coward, 2010-06-07 10:10:06

So sad but thanks for all your hard work. It was such a great tool for me

vierito5, 2010-06-07 10:28:55

Today when firefox told me about a new update in firegpg, I´ve got excited. But now it´s sad to know it was discontinued. Considering the number of comments there´s no need to say how important this add-on is. Thank you for the amazing job !!

Felipe, 2010-06-09 15:51:45

I also thank you very much (and expressed that earlier also with donation).

What is now the path? Somebody actively took over yet? Or is there an alternative somebody switched to?

I have seen that there are two related github sites: http://github.com/SvenDowideit/fireGPG (this is the one you mentioned) and http://github.com/firegpg/firegpg

not sure what is most applicable.

Martin Wildam, 2010-07-13 10:31:54

FireGPG is an excellent plugin that makes GPG so much more accessible to users. I can see a not too distant future when it becomes a standard browser feature.

May you name blaze in glory for your work!

andrewmuck, 2010-07-16 15:50:22

Excellent work to date on this extension - it is indeed a pity that life has to intercede. It’s tough with open source projects though. This truly is one of the better Firefox extensions to surface as there’s so little in the web-based email PGP arena. We recommended this plug in for use in many of our tunnel and proxy products.

Thank you Sven for importing this into github - I’ll bet we could get some community development support for this. We might even be able to sponsor it’s development to some degree.

Congrats again on the success thus far and good luck with your new endeavors.

Lockfox, 2010-07-02 15:57:05

Let this be a lesson to those of us who use great programs like FireGPG and think, “I don’t need to donate. It works great as it is without my money.” It may then, but it won’t CONTINUE to. I’m willing to bet a large majority of the folks lamenting its discontinuation on this page didn’t donate to help keep the tool they loved so much going. I know I didn’t…and frankly I’m ashamed. FireGPG’s discontinuation has put a serious dent in the way I use Gmail. I wish I would have given to its cause…

Anonymous Coward, 2010-07-14 22:18:57

Many thanks for FireGPG.

H3nrique, 2010-07-11 03:56:03

Thanks for all your great work! It has been of great value for me to contact people in a very private way.

I’m really sorry that you cannot continue.

Kisses Caroline

caroline, 2010-07-09 08:15:07

—–BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE—– Hash: SHA512

I never used it with Gmail (i rather a full blown email client like Thunderbird), but i do use PGP on the web, i’m sad to see this extension go :(

—–BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE—– Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (MingW32) Comment: Use GnuPG with Firefox : https://getfiregpg.org (Version: 0.8)

iEYEAREKAAYFAkwi59QACgkQl/yW+tZt1nFMNgCfeKU4Mtw9S72Doa2u1YyV2/i3 7A0AnjXdZompiw+r9PHnK08Uozf+xQG2 =43jB —–END PGP SIGNATURE—–

Tiago, 2010-06-24 07:06:58

I’ve just reinstalled FF. I’ve been with Chrome since the first beta but now it’s time to come home… Anyway.. Once FF was installed the first addon I went looking for is Firegpg. You have done an amazing job! i know that we won’t see an other addon like yours anytime soon.

Thank you!

Pnocturne, 2010-06-09 08:33:56

I totally understand your frustration. Seems a better plan is to forget about the Gmails, hotmails, etc and instead to simply focus on supporting a few email providers like “slashmail.org” that won’t constantly “evolve” and would work you alot less.

I really believe the sort of person who uses FireGPG would rather not be on Gmail anyway, they just don’t know any better! Maybe just support what you support and if people are too hard headed to dump Gmail, don’t worry about them.

Jim

Jim, 2010-07-12 00:30:52

Merci beaucoup pour tout ce remarquable travail :-)

Momizu, 2010-06-08 11:08:31

Thanks for your efforts in developing the plugin. Sorry to see the gmail support go but I think everyone understands the amount of effort required to keep updates going for them far exceeds the resources you have.

take care!

Kevin W, 2010-06-08 15:35:23

I have been meaning to take a look into using FireGPG with foswiki to provide an integrated way to secure shared secrets - and like others, never managed to make time.

in case the project goes the way of others I meant to spend time on, I’ve imported it to github:

http://github.com/SvenDowideit/fireGPG

fork away?

Sven

Sven Dowideit, 2010-06-13 09:14:21

hello sir, its realy a awesome work you ever done. thanks for this lovely services.

manu, 2011-02-04 15:01:57

So what are the alternatives, huh? Instead, you decided to leave us hanging like that? Thank a lot idiot, I hope someone slap you across your face.

DaSolution, 2010-09-06 14:18:36

Sorry to see it go. Here’s hoping that someone in the community will pickup the project and carry the torch.

Warezjoe, 2010-06-16 05:37:56

Thanks for your time developing this plugin. If you change your mind and decide to raise some money to continue the development i’ll surely offer you a couple of beers..

Maybe without the tiring gmail support (if they want to keep the users on the site they should pay you..)

roby, 2010-06-08 14:55:38

Thanks for your hard work.

Peter Burkholder, 2010-07-08 17:50:08

:-(

I used FireGPG but never with Gmail. Sad to see it go. Thank you for you hard work.

Mark, 2010-06-09 20:36:08

Gmail support I think is unnecessary since theres other ways to do it, but I think FireGPG is a real good contribution to the world. Perhaps it could be open sourced or something?

John Smith, 2010-06-10 00:34:08

Like everyone here, I am sorry to see FireGPG end. I only recently discovered it, and was delighted that GPG capability could be so effectively brought into webmail interfaces.

Thank you for the time you’ve given to develop and freely distribute this wonderful tool. I do hope that you come back to it, or at least that someone picks up your work and continues it.

Scott, 2010-06-10 02:26:42

A sad news indeed.

Firegpg is a critical piece on internet infrastructure right now, so we must find the way to keep it going.

Anyways, a million thanx and love to The_glu for your work… you rock the world!

caedes, 2010-06-07 12:16:08

thanks

joke, 2010-06-07 18:22:40

Firegpg is (and was) great.

d9ping, 2010-06-08 00:34:52

Nice work but s to hear that it is being discontinued. Will this be fate of every open source software project? I had been promoting various open-source software but getting stressed after hearing the discontinuity news. Let’s see how things evolve over time.

Many thanks to you for such a wonderful work. Well done !!!

Rajeev Yadav, 2010-06-08 01:03:45

That’s sad. I loved firegpg, even though it was somewhat hard to compile its support library on FreeBSD.

Farid H., 2010-06-07 19:22:00

thanks a lot for your work.

Andrew, 2010-06-07 19:36:16

Sorry to hear that. Good luck.

Zane, 2010-06-07 21:21:11

Sorry to see this, on behalf of all the users at LINX I’d like to thank you for your efforts. FireGPG has and will continue to be, at least for a while, one of those tools that we just love to have to hand.

Hugh Spencer, 2010-06-07 21:41:29

This is very sad news. Many privacy conscious people never use Gmail and so dropping support for it is no big deal. But dropping the whole project will be lamented by many. Is there no way of carrying on the project but without Gmail support?

This really is/was an exciting and important extension for Firefox, is there anyway we can change your mind?

Jake Mango, 2010-06-07 22:41:21

Remove my earliewr comment, I see the github project

ipatrol, 2010-06-13 16:29:34

Saaay, could I take over administration? I’m not a java expert, but maybe I can put it on sourceforge and have everyone help.

ipatrol6010@yahoo.com

ipatrol, 2010-06-13 16:28:44

A lot of thanks for all of this time!!!! Great Job

Jose, 2010-06-18 12:44:42

It was a great plugin! Please contact me, if any financial or technical help is needed.

Alex (Rechenzentrum München / Datacenter Munich), 2010-08-18 23:38:48

I wish someone could go on with this project. Anyway, good work!

fraujansen, 2011-07-25 10:57:55

[…] is an extension that provides GPG encryption and decryption options for Firefox. It was discontinued a year ago, and didn’t support Firefox 4.0 due to changes it […]

FireGPG | Free Software Universe, 2011-08-04 00:19:01

I really appreciate the time I had with FireGPG and like everyone else I’m sorry to see it go. Does anybody know of another gmail compatible alternative?

Daniel, 2011-03-23 18:42:28

[…] enigmail. I used to use Firefox’s firegpg plugin with Gmail, but it has since been discontinued. With enigmail, encryption becomes pretty transparent; it is much easier than the way it used to […]

Encryption Protection: Cover Your Assets : pinesmoke.com, 2011-04-27 02:59:51

No… Probably gmail won’t copy or support any GPG-initiative, since google want to analyze the stuff you write in your e-mails to give you homing adverts. ;)

gurragummisnurra, 2011-09-15 17:17:46

Any replacement for FireGPG so far, guys?

theo, 2011-05-26 06:33:27

Thanks for all the hard work on this plugin!

I would like to know what the major obstacles were for the Gmail support. Perhaps I will take a look and see if there is some way to make the plugin more impervious to gmail changes.

James, 2011-05-22 21:23:32

It is possible to support the development to get the pgp support for gmail back.

thanks a lot heavy

Hrvoje, 2011-07-28 21:58:09

Shame to hear about FireGPG.

Rather than waste all that time and money by letting FireGPG become discontinued, why not have it Open Source and allow people to continue your work?

Andy, 2011-12-27 09:07:23

Gmail issues fixed

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:45:31 +0000

Release planned Sunday ;)

Comments

For me, FireGPG is simply AWESOME! Unfortunately, it is “half broken” with Firefox 3.6.3 (German language). I can decrypt messages like I was used to but whenever I try to compose a message, I receive the small red ribbon stating something seems to be broken. Error is:

checkDock/compose chrome://firegpg/content/Webmails/Gmail/cgmail2.js 669 children[0] is undefined

I tried to deactivate Google Labs, deactivated ALL extensions (except FireGPG) but still no luck. Would be awesome if there is a fix?

Thanks,

Thorsten

Thorsten, 2010-04-26 22:21:16

Where does one report bugs? I have an issue that when fetching a key from the server, the clock graphic that get put up does not go away. I reloaded the page, closed the tab, minimized the browser and even switched to another desktop in my Gnome desktop and the clock was still there. That is annoying!

Also, could there be a preference to never ask whether I want to ‘fetch the key form the server’? Could it be possible to just show a yellow text ‘No key available’ instead of ‘Signed email’ and then when I want to check the signature I would click on the ‘No key available’ and then you app could get the key from the server in background. And just replace the text without annoying me again with a useless pop-up?

Aigars Mahinovs, 2009-11-23 22:21:17

@Aigars: Get the lastest version…

Maximilien Cuony [The_glu] , 2009-11-24 08:42:55

Non working for Firefox 3.5.7 @ Windows! Any fix soon?

N900, 2010-01-12 15:49:12

You have problem with your smtp server, check your password and/or use anthoer (eg. your internet provided’s smtp)

Maximilien Cuony [The_glu] , 2009-11-13 11:52:25

Says October 8 on the status page, a typo?

scalyblue, 2009-11-07 08:00:42

Yes it’s a typo ;)

@Benjamin: Not yet, but I will find something.

Maximilien Cuony [The_glu] , 2009-11-07 09:00:08

I use a Google App domain with Firefox 3.0.

FireGPG work like a charm for me…

David DST, 2010-03-03 15:27:24

Hi,

I recently discovered FireGPG. A pretty good job ! Unfortunetely it doesn’t function with Firefox 3.6.

Do you plan to publish a release for F. 3.6 and followers ? Is the devellopment of FireGPG off ? Do you know any similar software ?

Thank you for your job !

Sincerely yours,

C.M.

Camel, 2010-04-12 16:37:03

Works great here.

Thanks for your hard work and effort. I love the comments on your congratulations page - do people really keep forwarding the error, even when you say not to? :-)

Please dont give up on this project!

AK, 2009-11-08 21:49:47

Yep AK, wanna see my Inbox ? ;)

Maximilien Cuony [The_glu] , 2009-11-08 21:58:30

Hi! I’m very anxious to use FireGPG and it actually works quite well with Gmail. That is, the normal Gmail. It doesn’t work with Gmail as a Hosted App. I’m guessing it would be a slight change to make this work, but I’m not sure where to dig, or if you have plans to include this soon.

Jonas Öberg, 2010-01-08 19:21:54

I really want to use this for my Non-profit company of roughly 61 employees. We’re using Google Apps for your Domain (GAFYD) email for our website, etc. But I can’t WAIT to get FireGPG to work with it.

Please let us know if you’re getting this going, and if you’re planning on a Chrome release.

Finally, are you planning to add additional team members to your project? Because if you burn out.. we’ll all die seeing there’s no more updates. :)

Thanks!

Mark H, 2010-01-14 14:54:13

I’m looking for team members, yes :)

Maximilien Cuony [The_glu] , 2010-01-14 14:59:04

Is there any word on when/if FireGPG will be fixed?

Katie, 2010-01-08 21:37:40

No date.

Maximilien Cuony [The_glu] , 2010-01-08 21:39:37

I’m looking at this and on my google apps domains what does work is if I use inline signatures, but it does not work with attached signatures.

Do we know when this might get time to look at it? So we can generalize to google apps domains?

It looks like you are aware of the issue, but I’m curious where we find bug reports, and report bugs.

Jigme Datse Rasku

Jigme Datse Rasku, 2010-03-05 10:24:38

Will you guys have a Google Chrome extension for FireGPG soon?

anon, 2009-12-18 08:26:44

Hello guys! Thanks for the good work, but the latest version does not work for me. (using firefox 3.5.5) Please help. Here are the errors when i try to send a message: http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/818/firegpg1.png and http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/1535/firegpg2.png Thanks and sorry if i’m the problem ;)

dopefish, 2009-11-13 02:06:45

Hello, I like very much this plugin ; same as other people before, I would like to see a working version of FireGPG for firefox 3.6 that can send encrypted messages through Gmail.

Thanks, Le Barde.

Le Barde, 2010-05-17 09:19:28

tanks

damir, 2010-07-24 15:32:58

I just built it from svn and it works.

Seems awesome Maximilien.

Thank you very much.

Luís Bastião Silva, 2009-11-07 00:37:35

Thanks, glu.

By the way, the status page says that you plan to release the fix… a month ago. Typo?

Sue D. Nymme, 2009-11-06 17:50:07

Looking forward to it. The constant “FireGPG: Gmail support seems broken. Details Status’s page Close” bubble is really annoying, is there any way to disable that without entirely removing FireGPG?

Benjamin C. Wiley Sittler, 2009-11-06 20:02:31

I too have the same problem as Thorsten. Decryption/reading emails is fine, but encrypting/sending isn’t.

Seems that using the older version of gmail works ok when sending, though. But - it is a pain in the ass swapping back and forward…

Nonetheless, awesome software! Hope the bug doesn’t bore too deep.

Jeremy Stratos, 2010-05-11 15:20:02

Its works with Fx 3.6, just use the version on https://getfiregpg.org...

Maximilien Cuony [The_glu] , 2010-04-13 08:59:46

Gmails issues fixed !

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:39:04 +0000

Release for the 26. I need beta testers now, contact[at]getfiregpg.org, thanks !

Comments

I’m in too. Please send me the beta.

Sean Conley, 2009-10-29 00:31:53

I installed FireGP today (Oct 24), and I still get the gmail compose mail error. IF you still need beta tester, I am in,

ciao VDL

vdl, 2009-10-24 21:28:53

Yep I have already fixed the problem but I need to fix some problem before make a new release. Just wait ;)

Maximilien Cuony [The_glu] , 2009-10-29 09:04:23

I installed version 0.7.9, and I still get that error too. If you need beta tester you can count on me.

Bye

Antonio

Antonio Oliveira, 2009-10-28 17:41:11

I’ve confirmed that the Gmail compose error still exists.

James, 2009-10-28 14:14:28

Waiting for new release :)

Luís Bastião Silva, 2009-11-06 03:07:23

Better Gmail's support

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:48:18 +0000

I implemented a system who catch errors occurred by FireGPG when he works with gmail. It’s mean that if there is problem with composition window, another features can still working.

A message is showed about the problem and I created a status page to inform about the gmail status (not online yet).

I hope this will help gmail’s integration ;)

Comments

i post here because the bug reporting site is closed: is it possible to shorten the “Signed mail” message under the signed mails? because it make gmail enlarge the page always more than the screen space.. maybe one or two \n would be enough… In my case it says:

“Signed mail (This message has been signed with the valid key ID Roberto Previdi (made on Fri Jan 8 20:30:28 2010) )”

roby, 2010-01-08 21:36:06

It’s an option in options…

Maximilien Cuony [The_glu] , 2010-01-08 21:37:10

Gmails issues seem to be solved

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:12:01 +0000

Great, it’s seem Gmail issues for some accounts are dues to the cache of Gmail’s server.

If 0.7.8 works, keep it, if not, use 0.7.7, and if 0.7.7 doesn’t works, use 0.7.8.

If 0.7.7 AND 0.7.8 doesn’t works, please complain !

Update** :******

Gmails issues are not solved. A new version will come asap.

Comments

Max

We love you bro! Keep up the good work! I will be patient until FireGPG + GMail work again!!!

Felipe

felipe1982, 2009-08-24 05:54:03

GMail capability does not work for me with 0.7.7 or 0.7.8. I can still decrypt ‘manually’.

Claude-Eric Desguin, 2009-08-01 11:11:40

Hi, I’m using firefox 3.5.2 and the latest release of firegpg, running under XP. Today I found out I cannot neither decrypt others’ mail nor open my encrypted mail. All seemed to work ‘til yesterday. Wwhat’s happened? The strange thing is that, if I try to write a new message opening a new window, the firegpg toolbar shows up itself,but still doesn’t work Help!!!

andrea, 2009-08-20 19:10:31

Hi.

Just wait.

Maximilien Cuony [The_glu] , 2009-08-20 19:13:15

Hello,

Quite the same thing for me here, FireGPG only works sometimes, and not always. Could it be because of some other extensions I have (AdBlock, Flashblock,…)?

Gui13, 2009-08-12 10:28:27

No ;)

Maximilien Cuony [The_glu] , 2009-08-12 10:44:14

Hadop, do:

whereis gpg

that should tell you where gpg is, if not you’ll have to dig through a few things but you should be able to find it with:

locate /gpg

Good luck. Had to do that on my Mac OSX machine.

Jigme Datse

Jigme Datse Rasku, 2010-03-05 10:31:16

Hey, some news about gmail support ? thank you.

alan, 2009-08-14 14:13:47

No, I don’t have the time to work on it, sorry.

Maximilien Cuony [The_glu] , 2009-08-14 14:22:34

Can you wait 1 or 2 week and check again ? Thanks !

Maximilien Cuony [The_glu] , 2009-08-01 12:23:54

I still cannot decrypt Gmail emails that were sent with FireGPG (OpenPGP/MIME encrypted message). Thoughts? Tried v0.7.7 and 0.7.8 in Firefox 3.5.2 on WinXp… I can only decrypt manually… then I have to convert the Base64 encoded message to ASCII…

Blake Miner, 2009-09-04 00:50:19

I know Blake..

Maximilien Cuony [The_glu] , 2009-09-04 00:51:27

Hi Max!

I wanted to thank you for developing this product. :D It’s very useful. 0.7.7 and 0.7.8 don’t work for me in Gmail right now, so I’ll have to decrypt my messages some other way, but I wanted to let you know that I appreciate what you’re doing. :D

Kira, 2009-09-12 20:24:57

I’m unable to used firegpg 0.7.9 with Firefox 3.53 It can’t find my GPG programs.

I’m using Fedora 11. KDE as my desktop. KGPG is my gpg..

Hadop, 2009-10-01 21:00:55

0.7.8 released but..

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:05:04 +0000

It’s seem some accounts dosen’t works with 0.7.8 too. I will wait a few days and check again, maybe not every gmail server has migrated. I’m sorry for issues but I can’t do a lot of things…

Comments

using firefox 3.0, i see the same message reported by bugsbunny. It suggests that the error is at line 69, column 5, which (confusingly) is the first open-angle-bracket on the doc2 line. I don’t see any problems with the XML just from reading it, but i could be missing something.

Does the wizard complete successfully for you?

Daniel Kahn Gillmor, 2009-08-04 23:51:18

Upgraded to 0.7.8 and somewhere along the line of the initial wizard I ran across this:

XML Parsing Error: not well-formed Location: chrome://firegpg/content/Dialogs/Assistant/6-end.xul Line Number 69, Column 5:
—-^

bugsbunny, 2009-07-30 21:29:41

Edit: seems to have stripped the actual code. Let’s change it up a bit (changes should be obvious):

XML Parsing Error: not well-formed Location: chrome://firegpg/content/Dialogs/Assistant/6-end.xul Line Number 69, Column 5: (gt sign)label class=“link” onclick=“window.open(‘https://getfiregpg.org/s/doc');" value=”&doc2;” /(lt sign) —-^

bugsbunny, 2009-07-30 21:33:26

I need the locate ! There is probably a missing translation and I need to find witch one ;)

Maximilien Cuony [The_glu] , 2009-08-05 07:06:29

here is a patch which fixes the problem:

diff –git a/locale/en-US/6-end.dtd b/locale/en-US/6-end.dtd index 447b02f..3138312 100644 — a/locale/en-US/6-end.dtd +++ b/locale/en-US/6-end.dtd @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@

<!ENTITY description “Assistant is now done. Now you should be able to use Fire

-<!ENTITY doc2 “You will find some links on this page”> +

<!ENTITY tr2 “Horrible mistake in your language for FireGPG? Here is the websit

Daniel Kahn Gillmor, 2009-08-05 07:37:44

ugh, this site garbled the patch. anyway, look at line 5 of locale/en-US/6-end.dtd – there is a stray “x” element in it.

Daniel Kahn Gillmor, 2009-08-05 07:39:01

Hum okay, witch locate ?

(The final step is not very important, hopefully)

Maximilien Cuony [The_glu] , 2009-07-30 21:34:49

Ho, it’s just a security of the translator, I will fix this ;)

Maximilien Cuony [The_glu] , 2009-08-07 15:37:08

Gmail support is broken...

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:28:21 +0000

Release asap..

Comments

falls to knees with fists in air

Nooooooooooo oo oo oo o o o

Jake, 2009-07-29 17:29:44

Twitter

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:38:04 +0000

I created an account to reply to someone, but I think I will post news on it too ;)

http://twitter.com/firegpg

Inline create problems on a page or you want to activate it just for a site ?

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:03:06 +0000

Well, next release will include a solution for this :]

Work on files including downloaded files

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:16:12 +0000

Btw I finished the assistant, except translations, nothing new except a gmail’s smtp server access check and a way to set some options :]

Comments

Very cool. Hash stuff built right into the browser is great.

webfork, 2009-08-19 01:28:33

New email adresse too:

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:52:13 +0000

contact[at]getfiregpg.org

Now everything is on getfiregpg.org °o°

Svn repository moved !

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:07:10 +0000

Please use

svn co svn://svn.tuxfamily.org/svnroot/firegpg/firegpg

to get sources now.

This command MAY works if you doesn’t wants to download everything :

svn switch –relocate svn://svn.tuxfamily.org/svnroot/firegpg/firegpg http://svn.getfiregpg.org/firegpg

FireGPG assistant

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:45:16 +0000

Because lot of users don’t know what to do after installed FireGPG…

Not finished yet, but here is a screenshot :

Firefox 3.5

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:45:42 +0000

Firefox 3.5 is now used as basis browser to develop FireGPG ;)

Comments

This means that fireGPG will be available soon for FF3.5 right? How long do you expect it to take? FF3.5 is so much faster that I don’t want to work in 3.0 any longer than I absolutely have to! :-)

Thanks for the good work!

Lifeboy, 2009-07-06 16:05:47

FireGPG is already available for FF3.5 ;)

Maximilien Cuony [The_glu] , 2009-07-06 16:45:24

Any updated instructions how to build libipc on non-Linux Unix-like systems (e.g. FreeBSD) for FF3.5 please.

I was able to compile and use libipc on FreeBSD/amd64 for FF3.0, but not for FF3.5.

TIA.

cordula, 2009-07-16 23:23:01

What is the problem-error-step not working ?

Maximilien Cuony [The_glu] , 2009-07-17 07:03:45

Hi Maximilien, sorry for the delay.

I’m following the steps outlined here: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20090523145353.GC1325

With the www/firefox35 port, this is the part that leads to the show-stopper:

cd work/mozilla-1.9.1/extensions/ipc

./makemake -r -o .

INFO: no .mozconfig file found INFO: no MOZ_OBJDIR used Processing: /usr/local/ports/www/firefox35/work/mozilla-1.9.1/extensions/ipc/build Processing: /usr/local/ports/www/firefox35/work/mozilla-1.9.1/extensions/ipc/public Processing: /usr/local/ports/www/firefox35/work/mozilla-1.9.1/extensions/ipc Processing: /usr/local/ports/www/firefox35/work/mozilla-1.9.1/extensions/ipc/tests Processing: /usr/local/ports/www/firefox35/work/mozilla-1.9.1/extensions/ipc/src Done

gmake

Makefile:42: ../../../../../../../../../config/rules.mk: No such file or directory gmake: *** No rule to make target `../../../../../../../../../config/rules.mk’. Stop.

It used to work with the www/firefox3 port, but not with www/firefox35 port anymore.

Perhaps libipc-latest isn’t compatible with FF3.5?

Thanks

cordula, 2009-07-30 10:31:05

I don’t know. But the 3.0 ipc lib should works for fx3.5 ;)

Maximilien Cuony [The_glu] , 2009-07-30 10:33:58