Hi folks, just want to put some words on the status of the Thunderbird extension. As you probably noticed, it currently doesn't work on TB 60+.
TB 60 decided to jump on the new FF engine, and as Firefox with the 60 release, the following happened: - TB 60 doesn't have the WebExtension APIs required yet to develop FileLink extensions. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1481052 TB 63 "should" be the first TB version that includes the required API. At the time, the API is still being discussed. - Despite knowing several extensions won't work with TB 60, they still decided to disable "Legacy extensions" by default. Note that, contrarily to Firefox, TB extensions won't have *anything* in common with other browsers or clients, so there's no rush for "WebExtension" compatibility here. - TB also deliberately changed several APIs with TB 60, which they could have avoided. This broke existing "legacy" extensions exactly at the worst possible moment. - Cherry on top, TB also removed the installation of the xpcom SDK, which caused Debian to drop most of the utilities *needed* to fix/rebuild the extensions. Just like FF 60, I'm actually mad at how the transition was handled. TB is clearly understaffed, but there's no excuse for such a poor release handling. TB 60-62 will require a specific extension just for the transition period, and that code will have to be trashed again for TB 63.
