Thank you both for the clear explanation.
Sounds like I'm stuck where I am. A few of my ABP filters are now
saying "this filter subscriptions requires a newer ABP version...."
This is going to be a security risk soon I assume as I fund ABP does a
better job keeping add based virus out than my AV products.
Alas your comment "Most are a joke compared to their former xul based
ones." Is sadly true. Some of the extensions I see in my Firefox install
(which I only use for the increasing number of websites that won't work
in SM) have way more limited UIs than the XUL version. I'm hoping with
time they can reach the functionality of the old versions. Is there
something about how they work that means they never will? And a few of
my favorite extensions have not been ported.
I wonder how soon we will realistically see a Seamonky build with the
Firefox 60 ESR or newer code. I really don't want to move away from SM,
but the lack of developers to keep the code current is putting the
handwriting clearly on the wall for SM's demise.
On 8/30/2018 12:43 PM, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote:
Thunderbird 60 and SeaMonkey 2.57 are/will not be based on 52 code but
on Firefox 60 ESR code.
Web extensions were never developed with a program like Thunderbird in
mind. TB now adds web extensions apis and support but I doubt they will
be able to make any of the current ad or script blockers work in the
near time.
If not for developer shortage this would be actually easier for
SeaMonkey which already has a browser in place. But the whole Firefox
implementation is a mess with parts in the browser frontend and parts in
the Gecko backend.
And for quantum architectural changes. Most was already in 56 and
starting with 57 it was just lets rip this and this and that and this out.
It needs to be supported but besides from a few key extensions like
uBlock and NoScript you won't miss much with web extensions. Most are a
joke compared to their former xul based ones.
FRG
NFN Smith wrote:
Hawker wrote:
I have Adblock Plus 2.9.1 installed on Seamonkey. My subscriptions
are starting to say I need a newer version to work. I can't seem
find a SM compatible version of Adblock to download.
Is 2.9.1 (over 1 year old) the last version to work? Where can I find
newer versions?
I believe that 2.9.1 is the most recent version that will run in
Seamonkey, and I get the impression that that one isn't going to get
any more updates.
I know that I've also been running 2.9.1 in Thunderbird, and it works
fine in TB 52.x, but on the installation I have that I upgraded to
Thunderbird 60, Thunderbird disables it. In Thunderbird, I believe
that v60 is still 52.x code, but where essential updates are being
backported from Firefox ESR 60. Thus, Thunderbird still supports XUL
extensions, but for V60, extensions must be tweaked to allow for
explicit support of V60.
Realistically, until both Seamonkey and Thunderbird can finish the
move to WebExtensions, users of both are mostly going to limited to
extensions whose status is essentially frozen in time. There may be a
some developers who do stuff for Seamonkey or Thunderbird explicitly
that are continuing to update XUL extensions, but for extensions that
are primarily Firefox extensions, I think that most of the developers
are focusing only on what can be done in WebExtensions. They won't
pull the older XUL extensions (especially now that those are being
hosted at thunderbird.net, rather than addons.mozilla.org, but don't
plan on any additional updates. Adblock Plus is certainly not the
only one, but it's a good example.
Unfortunately, both Seamonkey and Thunderbird are still some way away
from transition to WebExtensions, and other architectural changes that
Firefox introduced with Quantum.
Smith
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