Re: intent to remove: standalone about:addons UI and tests

[Patrick Dark]

Kris Maglione 於 3/22/2017 6:38 PM 寫道:

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 08:33:56AM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote:

On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 02:36:31PM -0700, Robert Helmer wrote:

Currently we support running the about:addons UI in both a standalone
window, and also in a browser tab.

Firefox has only used the latter for many years, but we've continued
to maintain tests for both, which increases both our maintenance
burden and also the time it takes tests to run.

This removal is being tracked in bug 1349723.


Doesn't Thunderbird use the standalone window?


I believe they currently use a tab. If they do use, and want to 
continue using, a standalone window, they can always switch to 
embedding it in a tabbed window with the chrome UI hidden.


Thunderbird uses standalone windows for the address book, message 
composition, and message display (i.e., reading *.eml files), but not 
for the add-ons tab, as far as I know. These should all be tabs, IMO. No 
idea if that relates to this Firefox functionality removal, however.


(I wrote a private add-on that merges the address book into the main 
mail window since I hate the standalone window so much. I never got 
around to publishing it though since I couldn't figure out how to delete 
the mail window menu for the new tab.)

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Re: intent to remove: standalone about:addons UI and tests

[Kris Maglione]

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 08:33:56AM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote:

On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 02:36:31PM -0700, Robert Helmer wrote:

Currently we support running the about:addons UI in both a standalone
window, and also in a browser tab.

Firefox has only used the latter for many years, but we've continued
to maintain tests for both, which increases both our maintenance
burden and also the time it takes tests to run.

This removal is being tracked in bug 1349723.


Doesn't Thunderbird use the standalone window?


I believe they currently use a tab. If they do use, and want to 
continue using, a standalone window, they can always switch to 
embedding it in a tabbed window with the chrome UI hidden.

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Re: intent to remove: standalone about:addons UI and tests

[Mike Hommey]

On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 02:36:31PM -0700, Robert Helmer wrote:
> Currently we support running the about:addons UI in both a standalone
> window, and also in a browser tab.
> 
> Firefox has only used the latter for many years, but we've continued
> to maintain tests for both, which increases both our maintenance
> burden and also the time it takes tests to run.
> 
> This removal is being tracked in bug 1349723.

Doesn't Thunderbird use the standalone window?

Mike
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Re: intent to remove: standalone about:addons UI and tests

[Dave Townsend]

I agree that this has outlived its usefulness and we should remove it and
cleanup the code where we can.

On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 2:36 PM, Robert Helmer  wrote:

> Currently we support running the about:addons UI in both a standalone
> window, and also in a browser tab.
>
> Firefox has only used the latter for many years, but we've continued
> to maintain tests for both, which increases both our maintenance
> burden and also the time it takes tests to run.
>
> This removal is being tracked in bug 1349723.
>
>
> -rhelmer
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Re: intent to remove: standalone about:addons UI and tests

[Kris Maglione]

+1

On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 02:36:31PM -0700, Robert Helmer wrote:

Currently we support running the about:addons UI in both a standalone
window, and also in a browser tab.

Firefox has only used the latter for many years, but we've continued
to maintain tests for both, which increases both our maintenance
burden and also the time it takes tests to run.

This removal is being tracked in bug 1349723.


-rhelmer
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