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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/27/2018 9:25 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On Mon Mar 26 2018 12:44:50 GMT-0400 (Eastern Standard Time), Tanstaafl
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Wouldn't it make sense to first answer the question of whether or not 60
will completely and totally break all Addons, as was suggested by
Patrick here (to say this is extremely concerning to me would be an
understatement):
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Ok, while it has been established that, for now at least, 60 apparently
won't break all Addons, I'd really like to hear if anyone has pursued at
or at least given serious thought to something Philipp Kewisch mentioned
about a year ago with respect to adding our own WebExtension APIs just
for Thunderbird to make it easier (or even possible) to do the things we
want/need to be able to do.</pre>
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<p>You are a bit behind. There is already a statement about
webextensions at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/Add-ons_Guide_57">https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/Add-ons_Guide_57</a> - a link
which as been posted multiple times.<br>
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<p>If you are looking for something more definitive or descriptive,
no one has the cycles to dig into this more deeply right now, as
we are currently burdened with many other tasks - like version 60,
etc.<br>
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<p>But more hands, i.e. volunteers, would make light work.</p>
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He said it could be done relatively easily. This sounds like another
Long-Term option that should be seriously considered, and would provide
a much longer window for the long, slow gradual rewrite (which is
hopefully now settled as to the way forward).
I'm also curious why the Firefox alternatives (Waterfox, etc) haven't
taken this approach to provide an expanded set of APIs for Firefox itself.
Anyway, here is what he said:
On 3/19/2017, 12:46:47 PM, Philipp Kewisch <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mozilla@kewis.ch"><mozilla@kewis.ch></a> wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">From what I have seen it is fairly easy to extend the WebExtensions
API without making any changes to m-c, so we may be lucky. It is just
a matter of a category manager entry to load the right scripts.
We should even be able to provide the "WebExtension Experiments" so
add-on authors can test new API and propose it to be added to
Thunderbird. Obviously we should be making sure that the APIs added
are not too broad.
Keep your fingers crossed :)
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