On 30.04.17 23:46, David wrote: > I completely understand that Enigmail does not follow development > versions of Thunderbird. And I understand why. > > However. Today's "Daily" release, April 30, 2017, has added a feature to > the addons page that shows that the current addons are "Legacy" and not > Webextensions. As expected. But does this mean that Thunderbird will > follow the Firefox path on extensions? Like Enigmail?
You're asking the wrong mailing list - we're not Thunderbird developers. But I do follow the Thunderbird developers mailing list and their answer would be around this: It's unclear for how long "Legacy" extensions will be supported by Thunderbird. WebExtensions for Thunderbird don't make much sense because most of the APIs required for typical Thunderbird addons are not available to WebExtensions. Therefore, porting addons like Enigmail to a WebExtension is impossible. However, the decision is mostly on the Firefox developers. Disabling Legacy extensions does not mean that the code for supporting them will be removed, and as long as that code is available, Legacy extensions will be supported by Thunderbird. It is expected that Thunderbird will at some point have to fork from Firefox, because too many features required by Thunderbird will no longer be available in Firefox. But when and how and what happens after the fork is totally unclear and currently being discussed broadly among the Thunderbird developers. -Patrick
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