Georg Koppen:
Patrick Schleizer:
Hi,
XPCOM / XUL based add-ons will be deprecated in Firefox. [1]
I've searched trac, mailing list, irc logs... I know you are aware of that, but haven't found your plan forward. Is there already one?
What are your plans regarding tor-launcher? Will tor-launcher be ported over as Firefox WebExtension? Is that even possible?
We investigated what we would need for porting the extensions over to Webextensions a while ago in https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/17248.
The current plan has not changed: we still plan to port our extensions over to the Webextensions framework. It might need some upstream changes which we would provide with own patches but we'll see.
In Tails we run Tor Launcher as a stand-alone XUL application. Last I checked it was not clear whether this would still be supported by Firefox + WebExtensions. Do you know anything more about this?
Cheers!