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sunnygoyal / scienfic-calculator

A firefox addon to display a calculator in the toolbar. Supports defining custom functions, constant s and operator.

MIT License

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Do you have any plans to migrate it to WebExtension APIs? #12

Closed thanos-massias closed 7 years ago

thanos-massias commented 7 years ago

First of all thanks for the Scientific Calculator addon. I've been using it for years and really like it.

Do you have any plans to migrate it to WebExtension APIs?

Ede123 commented 7 years ago

I'm afraid this is very unlikely at this time:

While it might be possible to port somehow, the whole UI part would need to be completely rewritten and - as it's the sad case with all web-extensions - will probably still be inferior afterwards. This is a lot of work for which at least I currently do not have the time.
Even if I had the time I'm lacking the motivation to put in any work geared towards Firefox right now: Mozilla ruthlessly breaking all existing extensions on purpose and removing customization possibilities with every new version of Firefox made me loose trust in the foundation and the browser itself - I'm not willing to spend my spare time on a project that has set a course that goes against everything Firefox once stood for.

thanos-massias commented 7 years ago

Dear Eduard, thank you for your response. I understand the frustration over these Firefox changes. In any case, thanks again for all the work you have put into making that addon.