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NiklasGollenstede / unload-tabs

WebExtension that unloads tabs and prevents tabs from loading
https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/unload-tabs/
Mozilla Public License 2.0
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Migrate to WebExtensions #8

Closed Keith94 closed 7 years ago

Keith94 commented 7 years ago

Mozilla announced that starting in Firefox 57, Firefox will no longer support add-ons that are not WebExtensions.

Is it possible to convert Unload Tabs to be a WebExtension, so it can continue working in Firefox 57 and beyond?

NiklasGollenstede commented 7 years ago

Unfortunately literally none of the functionality this add-on uses is available to WebExtensions yet. And most of it won't ever be. For example to change the tab that gets focused, this add-on must act initially when the tab is closed. All WebExtension APIs are asynchronous, however. Which makes that impossible. Maybe Mozilla adds some APIs that allows a subset of the current functionality; I will look out for this, but it won't happen soon. So it does not look good ...

Keith94 commented 7 years ago

That's unfortunate, thanks for confirming anyway.