Does not work in Thunderbird 60.0 #74
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I was hoping to wait for thunderbird 60 to get into debian to work into it, as it simplifies a lot development. |
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2 months later, Thunderbird 60.2.1 (64 bits) on Elementary-OS, updated today and DL does not work. |
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But OK if I change the setting "extensions.strictCompatibility" to false. |
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On Wed, Oct 17 2018, AlainRnet wrote:
2 months later, Thunderbird 60.2.1 (64 bits) on Elementary-OS, updated today and DL does
not work.
Is there something to do or change to do it working again ?
Yes, complaining on the Mozilla bugtracker:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1493528
unfortunately, TB 60 does not now allow to update legacy extensions and
the new webextensions cannot do the same stuff:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1481052
It seems that the Thunderbird team didn't really think this through.
Many extensions cannot simply work on TB 60.
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Hi, They replied a month ago. Can we have a fix for this please ? One of our client need a TB 60 compatible version. |
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On Fri, Jan 11 2019, Nolivfr wrote:
They replied a month ago. Can we have a fix for this please ? One of
our client need a TB 60 compatible version.
I'm a bit tight currently with some other priority tasks, but I hope to
have something ready within the next 1/2 weeks.
I'll write here if I have anything sooner to test.
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Have you solution in next 2 month ? |
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Thanks for your patience and work at attempting an update, it's visible in the Mozilla bugs. @wavexx I'd encourage you to add a donation link to your home page and perhaps link to it from this project for those of us that can encourage you financially, if you think it's appropriate. https://liberapay.com/ and Bitcoin come to mind to setup such donations but there are other services and options out there. |
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I'm currently busy with our work deadline, which should be end of may. The issue here is not financing: I'm allowed to work on DL paid by our institution normally. The problem here is that whenever I have some allotted time for Thunderbird I hit a roadblock, unimplemented or undocumented feature which requires some waiting, and then the allotted time is gone. This is extremely frustrating. And to be blunt: I won't work on this on my free time. |
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Any hope for DL to become usable for FireFox again? |
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Because I have Nextcloud, I use it for large attachments with TB. |
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On Mon, May 13 2019, Alain Rihs wrote:
Sorry for DL and wavexx
Don't be. NextCloud has probably a team of devs that allows them to
chase TB changes.
Meanwhile, most of my group abandoned TB completely because the
extensions they were using stopped working at TB 60, so pressure here to
support TB has almost gone.
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Nooooooo.... so you aren't going to work on this any more? Have you made this abundantly clear to the TB developers? |
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On Mon, May 13 2019, John Crisp wrote:
>Meanwhile, most of my group abandoned TB completely because the
>extensions they were using stopped working at TB 60, so pressure here
>to support TB has almost gone.
Nooooooo.... so you aren't going to work on this any more?
I will complete the work I've started on TB 60, don't worry.
If the webext path is right, this work "won't break again" ;)
Have you made this abundantly clear to the TB developers?
I hopefully did. But it seems that the TB team is wonderfully
understaffed, so it's hard to blame some technical decisions.
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Yay !!!!!! That is FANTASTIC news. It's the one thing that prevents us upgrading. If you have any code to test let me know - I can't code this stuff, but I'm OK at test & debugging.
Just wondering if they were aware they've lost more users over this - I guess they do but they sometime seem a bit deaf :-( |
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Ryan here, Community Manager from Thunderbird. If you are building a WebExtension (we've started calling them MailExtensions in regards to Thunderbird) - then you should be in good shape for the foreseeable future. |
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@wavexx Ryan mentioned on the TB list he would be happy to try and help progress any add ons and I pointed him here..... |
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On Wed, Jun 26 2019, John Crisp wrote:
@wavexx Ryan mentioned on the TB list he would be happy to try and
help progress any add ons and I pointed him here..... I'm not sure
what needs doing, but please let us know.
I would actually be happy if somebody took over the extension
maintenance entirely. I objectively loose too much momentum catching up
with TB changes, and I don't use TB anymore - making development more of
a burden than anything else at this point.
I don't think there's anything hard here. The DL API is super-easy to
understand and the existing code will work just fine. It's the
UI-related changes that need to be reworked.
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Damn - that is extremely disappointing as the last we all heard was your comment #74 (comment) when you said don't worry you'd complete it - I think there were some like me who believed that would happen. That affects a lot of future planning. If I could do the work I seriously would, but I am no coder - at least not with this stuff. The person who I had working for me who might have been able to do some work recently left for streets apparently paved with gold :-( So it looks like my company will be dumping TB too as this extension was vital to us - we can't use Dropbox or other cloud providers for Privacy reasons. Sometime I wonder at the mentality of the TB developers :-( Unfortunately that means that DL will go in the bitbucket as well. I guess the only other thing is whether someone is willing to fix it for cash - as in some form of bounty? I'd be willing to contribute. If not you may as well close this wontfix and notify TB, and we can all look for alternatives. |
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On Wed, Jun 26 2019, John Crisp wrote:
I guess the only other thing is whether someone is willing to fix it
for cash - as in some form of bounty? I'd be willing to contribute.
I'm fully open to contributions here. If we can attract a new developer
which is using TB actively I'm willing to help him out during
development and he can take the full bounty.
If you are willing to support this economically I would post a message
in the thunderbird forums seeking for developers which are both
interested in the extension and in the work - to give at least some
guarantee of continuity in the future.
I don't see myself going back to Thunderbird but I'd like to keep it
going if I can.
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@ryanleesipes can we get this more visibility and invite others to contribute ? Perhaps the TB council could also help setup some sort of workflow for properly financing MailExtensions work. There is this work about to go down the drain and these people willing to pay for it to be brought up to date but not many outside of this thread know about it. |
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@MagicFab - I have been trying to get back into mozillazine to answer you but for whatever reason I cannot get back in to my account :-/ |
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Finally got back in to the Mozilla forums and posted a note there. |
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Could the code from *cloud - FileLink for Nextcloud and ownCloud and FileLink for Plik both authored by Johannes Endres help? Thank you |
I made an update to Thunderbird 60.0 today. DL does not work, even if I change the setting "extensions.strictCompatibility" to false. I does not show in the setting of Filelink.
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