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benbasson / newtabhomepage

Firefox Extension - Loads your homepage when you open a new tab.
http://www.basson.at/firefox-addons/newtabhomepage
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Rewrite New Tab Homepage using WebExtensions APIs #19

Closed benbasson closed 6 years ago

benbasson commented 7 years ago

Mozilla have announced plans to phase out all non-WebExtension add-ons by the end of 2017. While I consider this decision to be utterly insane (and half expect them to end up extending that deadline, if they have any users left to appease at that point), it's safe to assume that this add-on will have to be rewritten or will cease to exist at the end of 2017.

Current blockers in the WebExtensions API:

Not blocking, but relevant:

dave-kennedy commented 7 years ago

Looks like v54 adds support for overriding the new tab page URL in the package manifest: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1234150

It doesn't allow the end user to specify an arbitrary URL through settings, but Mike Kaply suggested a workaround:

You can allow the user to override the new tab page in an extension by simply setting the new tab page to a chrome URL in your extension and then having that chrome URL navigate to the correct page. (That's how you do it in the Chrome browser).

benbasson commented 7 years ago

Well, they've closed off Bug 1322308, but not in a way that actually meets the requirement, so I guess we'll soon find out whether that's the end of this add-on or if they're going to revisit the API.

benbasson commented 6 years ago

So I'm pretty sure I am done with the rewrite of this add-on and I'm pushing it to GitHub.

Holding off on release for now because I'm damned if I can figure out which version of Firefox it'll be compatible with, but 57.0b8 doesn't seem to cut it. Fingers crossed that the APIs I need made it in time to be in the RC or final builds.

benbasson commented 6 years ago

Published on AMO.