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The large ebible.org repository loads too slowly in module manager #240

Closed JohnAustinDev closed 8 years ago

JohnAustinDev commented 9 years ago

Sometimes the ebible.org module repository takes so long to load that the busy-script dialog appears.

JohnAustinDev commented 8 years ago

This has been fixed in 3.13+

ildar commented 8 years ago

Where can I find new releases? The "Releases" tab is empty...

JohnAustinDev commented 8 years ago

Here: http://ibtrussia.org/en/pc

or

http://ibtrussia.org/ftpmirror/pub/xulsword/

xulsword 3.13 should be available in the next few days, hopefully.

On 12/09/2015 03:01 PM, ildar wrote:

Where can I find new releases? The "Releases" tab is empty...

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/JohnAustinDev/xulsword/issues/240#issuecomment-163154847.

ildar commented 8 years ago

That's great, thanks! Now what do you think about the FF plugin? Is it End-Of-Line?

JohnAustinDev commented 8 years ago

Good question. Firefox is moving toward a more secure plugin ecosystem compatible with Google Chrome. This means support for binaries, such as xulsword's libxulsword (which is based on CrossWire's C++ SWORD engine) is currently in jeopardy. It now takes significant effort to keep complicated Add-ons up to date in the quickly evolving Firefox ecosystem, so until and unless Mozilla states they will continue support for binaries in Firefox Add-ons, I don't think support for the current xulsword Firefox Add-on will be maintained.

However, support for xulsword is continuing as usual (xulsword 3.13 is based on Firefox 41) and future support for xulsword in its current form is still indefinite regardless of Mozilla's rather vague Add-on security/support road map.

On 12/10/2015 01:51 AM, ildar wrote:

That's great, thanks! Now what do you think about the FF plugin? Is it End-Of-Line?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/JohnAustinDev/xulsword/issues/240#issuecomment-163371385.

ildar commented 8 years ago

Greetings! John, Mozilla is not going to drop the old add-ons API right away, see https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/08/21/the-future-of-developing-firefox-add-ons/ Would you take a time and decide whether you're going to drop it or not? Thanks!