On 10/8/19 10:57 AM, Mark Rousell wrote: > On 08/10/2019 08:08, Patrick Brunschwig wrote: >> The Thunderbird developers have announced that they will implement >> OpenPGP support in Thunderbird 78 [1]. Support for Thunderbird in >> Enigmail will therefore be discontinued. > > Wow. > > Patrick, first of all I'd like to thank you for all the effort you have > put into Enigmail (and will continue to put into it). Without your > brilliant work it is clear that Thunderbird would not have been as > successful as it has been.
Second^W er, thirded. > I am certain that I would not have been a longtime user of Thunderbird > if it had not been for the old addon ecosystem, especially Enigmail. I second this. I don't use a *lot* of add-ons in Thunderbird, but the few that I do use add or *fix* important functionality. (Like the "Seriously, what were you thinking?" Thunderbird design decision to display your own address in incoming mail as "Me". Because NOBODY IN THE ENTIRE WORLD uses more than one email address or cares which address incoming mail was sent to ... right?) I have a terrible feeling that as with Firefox, this change in Thunderbird is going to carpet-nuke Thunderbird's add-on ecosystem and severely reduce its overall utility. WebExtensions has been around since 2015 and the Firefox WebExtensions add-on landscape is still a blasted plain sparsely dotted with a few stunted trees. It is still shocking to me how *few* pages the entire list of Firefox WebExtensions takes up. Sometimes I really wonder whether the Mozilla Foundation is actively trying to make its users abandon everything it produces. -- Phil Stracchino Babylon Communications ph...@caerllewys.net p...@co.ordinate.org Landline: +1.603.293.8485 Mobile: +1.603.998.6958
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