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.
Thanks for the clarification. I had assumed that TB support for the old
extensions indicated that it was based on 52.x.
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.
I noticed that when I was running 56 as well as 57 in beta, where
extensions for both APIs were fully functional in 56.
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.
For the most part, I've found FF and TB functional equivalents for the
extensions I run in SM, but I definitely prefer the older extensions.
Smith
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