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fkling / floatnotes

A Firefox extension that let you create post-it like notes on any website.
http://www.floatnotes.org
GNU General Public License v2.0
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Electrolysis compatibility #90

Open WladyX opened 7 years ago

WladyX commented 7 years ago

Hi guys, First of all a big thanks for this great addon, which I use daily :) Are you planning to upgrade it to be compatible with https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis ? Thanks for any info, Vlad

fkling commented 7 years ago

I haven't worked on this project in a long time and I unfortunately I don't see myself having time to work on this in the future. When I wrote this addon I thought I would never be one of those developers that abandons an addon that others rely upon. There is only so much you can do in a day though, and life and priorities change.

I'm afraid that updating it to be compatible will be a lot of work, since it's still based on the old XUL technology. Rewriting it would probably be easier.

If anyone wants to do that I'm happy to review PRs.

I'm very sorry for any inconveniences this may cause you!

WladyX commented 7 years ago

I understand, thanks very much for this addon and for update, maybe somebody will take over, or maybe it will create an import from your addon to a similar one :) Take care!

aaferrari commented 7 years ago

@fkling you may be interested in continuing to develop this for Pale Moon (in fact I use it currently and your addon works very well there). Technically would not be very difficult to maintain because the browser is still compatible with XUL addons and is fairly stable in terms of updates, so it is unlikely that something will break when install a new version. I'm not very familiar with the subject, but I think to make it "compatible" at first just modify the install.rdf file. For other questions in the forum can advise you better than me.