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Quicksaver / The-Fox--Only-Better

A Firefox add-on to improve the feeling of using the new Australis theme.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/the-fox-only-better/
Mozilla Public License 2.0
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Migrate to WebExtensions #139

Open mbid opened 8 years ago

mbid commented 8 years ago

So it looks like Mozilla is shutting down XUL for good. Is it possible to implement this addon using the new WebExtensions API? If so, has somebody already looked into this?

DaCoolX commented 8 years ago

I think somebody said extensive GUI addons such as this one would be gone for good under WebExtensions unless FF implements/extends it themselves.

DownThemAll says it better than I ever could. http://www.downthemall.net/the-likely-end-of-downthemall/

Quicksaver commented 8 years ago

It's hard to say exactly what will happen at this point. As far I'm concerned, as long as there is a way to implement the features of this add-on then it will keep existing, even if I end up needing to rewrite the whole thing.

The truth is I haven't really looked into what APIs would be needed myself because i) the currently planned APIs are definitely useless here so there's no point in even starting porting the add-on right now, and ii) whatever special APIs will be needed surely won't be given any priority until the basic ones are finished first (i.e. WebExtensions 1.0, scheduled for about half a year from now, probably later).

In the coming months I plan to start investigating this, and talking with Mozilla about implementing whatever will be needed.