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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Axel,</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">we are not planning to abandon legacy
add-on support for the time being. Firefox developers are getting
rid of various things (e.g. the inline options types), and as
Thunderbird uses the Gecko platform, this is not an active
decision on our part. We're doing our best to restore features
that legacy add-on developers in Thunderbird depend on and will
get in touch with add-on developers once we have formalized a plan
on how to evolve add-on support.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Kind Regards,<br>
Philipp<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/19/18 4:34 PM, Axel Grude wrote:<br>
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<p>It looks like modeless optoin dialogs are just completely
removed by Firefox and Thunderbird just takes over all changes
- so are you completely planning to abandon legacy add-ons? <i><br>
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<pre class="comment-text " id="ct-0">Now that legacy add-ons have gone away we can remove the inline options types from the add-ons manager on desktop and android.</pre>
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modeless / floating dialogs with preferences in them are very
important for my UI design as they provide context without
ripping the user out of the 3pane window. I was planning to go
self employed based on my Pro Add-ons, but if the plan is to
phase out Add-ons by just treating Thunderbird like chrome
(force everything in to content tabs, force the code into APIs)
then there is really no point going on.
<p>THis is just following the latest Postbox release 5.52 beta 7
last Friday who decided to drop 3rd party Add-ons support. (I
had all my code compatible and working with 5.52 beta 6) <br>
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<p>I think this is very frustrating as the constant restrictions
and making the UI experience poorer for users without warning
Add-ons developers doesn't exactly inspire much confidence
into our future. Are we just following all design decisions in
Firefox in order to stay code compatible and then expect
poorer and poorer extensions until there are only web
extensions left?<br>
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<p>Axel<br>
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