Does not work in Thunderbird 60.0

[okmikel]

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.

[wavexx]

I was hoping to wait for thunderbird 60 to get into debian to work into it, as it simplifies a lot development.

[AlainRnet]

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 ?

[AlainRnet]

But OK if I change the setting "extensions.strictCompatibility" to false.

[wavexx]

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.

[Nolivfr]

Hi,

They replied a month ago. Can we have a fix for this please ? One of our client need a TB 60 compatible version.

[wavexx]

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.

[proceau]

Have you solution in next 2 month ?

[MagicFab]

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.

[wavexx]

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.

[Knaldgas]

Any hope for DL to become usable for FireFox again?
Any alternative for self-hosting links out there?
(I fully understand the spare time and all)

[AlainRnet]

Because I have Nextcloud, I use it for large attachments with TB.
Sorry for DL and wavexx (I understand too)

[wavexx]

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.

[reetp]

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.

Nooooooo.... so you aren't going to work on this any more?

Have you made this abundantly clear to the TB developers?

[wavexx]

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.

[reetp]

On Mon, May 13 2019, John Crisp wrote: > 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" ;)

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.

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.

Just wondering if they were aware they've lost more users over this - I guess they do but they sometime seem a bit deaf :-(