On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 09:15:16AM -0500, Mark Smith wrote:
On 12/6/18 3:56 PM, Matthew Finkel wrote:
Hi all,
The next steps for torbutton and tor-launcher will be migrating from the restartless pieces to webextensions. This will be a requirement for the next ESR, and it is already the situation with the current Firefox releases. Also, they must be system add-ons. ...
Does this mean that the idea of building Torbutton and Tor Launcher into Tor Browser will not work? Tell us more about what you learned in Orlando ;)
No, that should remain the goal. These steps are only for a (possible) stepping stone before we reach that stage.
After I sent this mail and I had another discussion about it, I realized I should've mentioned we should evaluate the effort/time required of migrating the current extensions to webextensions compared with directly moving the functionality into firefox patches. It may be the case moving/reimplementing the the logic in Firefox may be the easier path.
We should take a step back and consider this before we dive into this process.