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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/2/2018 6:34 PM, Jörg Knobloch
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:14980501-dde9-ce75-d196-89a1f5385b48@jorgk.com">On
03/09/2018 00:27, Philipp Kewisch wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">If you would like an intermediate path,
you could aim for a bootstrapped
<br>
add-on. Note however you will need to rewrite to a WebExtension
at some
<br>
point before Thunderbird 68. Upgrading from a bootstrapped
add-on to a
<br>
WebExtension could be less effort than doing so from a XUL
add-on, but
<br>
my recommendation would still be to write it as a WebExtension
Experiment.
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Well, M-C actually "promised" a way forward for bootstrapped
add-ons, see:
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<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1413432#c7">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1413432#c7</a>
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<br>
How exactly that's going to look like, if at all, we don't know
yet.
<br>
<br>
Jörg. <br>
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<p>"we're going to continue supporting some form of bootstrapped
add-ons that are as powerful as current bootstrapped add-ons. For
Firefox, that will probably mean WebExtensions with embedded
experiment APIs."</p>
<p>Are there bug reports for this? ^<br>
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