On 7 Sep 2020, at 17:54, Robert J. Hansen <r...@sixdemonbag.org> wrote: > > >> >> So then would it legitimate to have a version of Enigmail that continued to >> work with TB 78? :) > > Won't and can't exist. Please stop asking. > > We've given the reasons many, many times. Originally, the Thunderbird user > interface was done using a Mozilla technology called XPCOM. Mozilla has since > abandoned XPCOM; moving forward, all extensions have to be written as > WebExtensions. > > So all the XPCOM in Enigmail, the stuff that's accumulated over almost twenty > years of development? None of it works any more. > > Enigmail cannot be ported to TB78. We would have to literally start over > rewriting the user interface in WebExtension. The finished product would not > be Enigmail as you've come to know it: it would be something completely new > and different. > > If you want to develop your own Enigmail successor as a WebExtension, knock > yourself out. But please don't call it Enigmail. :)
Maybe call it MailVelope? That’s a Firefox browser webextension that works in FX78 and higher for webmail (-: Onno
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