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<p>I would really like to shift to Type B which seems the addon of
the future but where is there any help for this?</p>
Could someone do a summary of the conversion effort for this one
please? <br>
<p>I tried taking an old version of the addon and "simply "
rewriting the install.rdf as manifest.json and when I tried to
install that I was told that it was incompatible with TB 64 - I
had minimum version 64.* There was no useful help in the error
console. How do you interpret:</p>
<p><span class="message-body-wrapper"><span
class="message-flex-body"><span class="message-body
devtools-monospace">1543848173590 addons.xpi WARN Invalid
XPI: Error: Extension is
invalid(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIInstall.jsm:441:11">resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIInstall.jsm:441:11</a>)
JS Stack trace:
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:loadManifestFromWebManifest@XPIInstall.jsm:441:11">loadManifestFromWebManifest@XPIInstall.jsm:441:11</a></span></span></span>
</p>
<p>I asked questions on the discussion page of the <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Talk:Thunderbird/Add-ons_Guide_63">https://wiki.mozilla.org/Talk:Thunderbird/Add-ons_Guide_63</a>
and nothing is said.</p>
<p>I looked at the cloudfile "sample" and could find nothing that
helped. <br>
</p>
<p>There was a comment recently about how you were all going to help
addon developers adapt to all this change but I find no help
anywhere.</p>
<p>Blessings<br>
Graeme<br>
</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 23/11/2018 09:21, Jörg Knobloch
wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:1a07a03b-3904-df02-94d5-4413606bdf00@jorgk.com">Hi all,
<br>
<br>
as you all know, the following extension types are supported in TB
64 beta and TB 65 Daily: <br>
<br>
A: restartless/bootstrapped extensions with an install.rdf
manifest (although this might go away pretty soon now) <br>
B: WebExtensions with a manifest.json <br>
C: "legacy" XUL extensions with overlays converted to using a
manifest.json and being loaded by TB's inbuilt overlay loader. <br>
<br>
Types A and B can be uploaded to ATN, but there is no solution yet
where to host type C. Uploading them to ATN would make the
previous version compatible with TB 60 ESR unavailable. There's
been a suggested to upload them with a new name, so Foobar becomes
FoobarBeta. <br>
<br>
For now, I'd just like to summarise the conversion effort for type
C be starting a list of available add-ons: <br>
<br>
ThunderHTMLedit - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.jorgk.com/misc/addons63/">http://www.jorgk.com/misc/addons63/</a>
<br>
Signature Switch - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://mozext.achimonline.de/prerelease.php">http://mozext.achimonline.de/prerelease.php</a>
(very bottom of page) <br>
Compact Header - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://compactheader.mozdev.org/installation.html">http://compactheader.mozdev.org/installation.html</a>,
currently Version 2.2.0beta3. <br>
<br>
I've also heard on the grapevine that these are being worked on:
"ReminderFox", "Before Tabs Toolbar". Perhaps authors can share
the location of these. <br>
<br>
As a first step I suggest to simply add a link to the description
on ATN as you can see here: <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-GB/thunderbird/addon/compactheader/">https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-GB/thunderbird/addon/compactheader/</a>
<br>
<br>
Jörg. <br>
<br>
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