Need Info on making QuickText compatible with Thunderbird Daily/Nightly/Alpha/Beta

[PeterLairo]

Make QuickText compatible with Thunderbird Daily/Nightly/Alpha/Beta

It would be great if you could make QuickText compatible with Thunderbird Daily/Nightly/Alpha/Beta.

You once provided instructions somewhere, but I cannot find them anymore.

It was something about unzipping the XPI installation file, and then editing the manifest.json by changing the strict_max_version to whatever version of Thunderbird you are using. The code is right at the beginning of the file:

{
  "manifest_version": 2,
  "applications": {
    "gecko": {
      "id": "{8845E3B3-E8FB-40E2-95E9-EC40294818C4}",
      "strict_min_version": "102.0",
      "strict_max_version": "125.*"                      <--------- This
    }
  },
  "name": "Quicktext",
  "version": "5.14 (bumped to TB ver 125.*)",    <---- I added the "(bumped to..." part

Is that correct?

Can you please put the instructions somewhere easy to find, e.g.:

• Mozilla add-ons page
• PIN this post
• The GitHub main page for QuickText

[jobisoft]

These instructions just paper over the internal safeguards. The add-on needs to be adjusted to internal changes of Thunderbird in order to work. Just making it claim to be compatible is not a solution.

The next version released in summer 2024 will be a pure WebExtension, which does not need updates anymore.

[SamuelPlentz]

https://github.com/jobisoft/quicktext/wiki/Support-Thunderbird-beta-or-daily-channel%3F