On 28/08/2015 17:37, sajolida wrote: > In terms of extension code, Maone told us he would be busy with other > extension work over the summer but maybe he's back on track now. Giorgio > what's up? Do you have any ETA for a first prototype? Anything blocking you? The main roadblock was Mozilla finalizing its add-ons migration strategy to the Electrolysis (e10s) multi-process & sandboxing architecture. Without an ultimate public decision, which has been deemed "imminent" for all the past month (see https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/8567#note-7 ), it was hard to even decide which of the 4 different technical approaches to develop Firefox add-ons was the best for this project:
1. XUL/XPCOM, like desktop NoScript; 2. restartless, like Android NoScript; 3. Add-on SDK; 4. WebExtensions, the new, future proof, Chromium-like thing (not even disclosed yet until last week, but I was aware of it earlier because I've been working closely with the e10s/add-ons team) This finally happened last week, with this announcement: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/08/21/the-future-of-developing-firefox-add-ons/ More about WebExtensions: https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions/ https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions/FAQ As I told intrigeri when we met, I had really hoped to develop our extension with the new API to improve its longevity and make a Chrome porting easy to do and maintain, but unfortunately, as you can also deduce from the links above, the decision have been dragged for so long that we wouldn't be able to support the Tor Browser (based on ESR) for about on year. Furthermore, until my own native.js proposal ( https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/proposal-native-js-to-embrace-extend-the-webextensions-api/3457 ) gets implemented ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1199718 -- filed just minutes ago), the WebExtensions API is not powerful enough to support our requirements. Therefore the only currently available option ensuring longevity is the Add-ons SDK (AKA "Jetpack"). I've just received guarantees from Mozilla (in a meeting held today) that they will give us any assistance for our extensions to be supported by any of the foreseeable future Firefox versions. I've already set up a development environment and started hacking. I'm gonna commit something to the git repository next week, and a working prototype most likely by the end of September. > > Just to let you know, we want to do extensive user testing sessions of > the whole process (Installation Assistant + Verification Extension) in > November. So we need all the pieces to be ready by then. I'm confident it's going to happen timely. -- G _______________________________________________ Tails-dev mailing list Tails-dev@boum.org https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to tails-dev-unsubscr...@boum.org.
