1713761 - Add support for in-product add-on replacement suggestions

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Add-Ons: General, enhancement)

Description

[John Bieling (:TbSync)]

When add-on developers no longer have the time to support/update their add-ons, a replacement suggestion shown inside the add-on manager could be helpful for our users.

Could we add some sort of add-on replacement search which we link from the add-on card of incompatible add-ons? Firefox has this:
https://mozilla.github.io/extension-finder/

Comment 1

[John Bieling (:TbSync)]

Step 1: https://extension-finder.thunderbird.net/

Comment 2

[John Bieling (:TbSync)]

Attachment: Bug 1713761 - Link incompatible add-ons to extension finder. r=mkmelin

Comment 3

[Andrei Hajdukewycz [:sancus]]

I know addons.thunderbird.net was in there before, but URLs should really be in prefs, not hardcoded...

Comment 4

[John Bieling (:TbSync)]

Hm, talking about the link of the button, or the change in the clickhandler? I feel uncomfortable having the trusted urls configurable...

Comment 5

[Andrei Hajdukewycz [:sancus]]

I mean you can change any number of trusted URLs in prefs currently, including all of our in-product links to ATN.

Comment 6

[John Bieling (:TbSync)]

Could you make suggestions for the (full) pref names for "https://addons.thunderbird.net" and "https://extension-finder.thunderbird.net" ? I have absolutely no experience there.

Comment 7

[Andrei Hajdukewycz [:sancus]]

(In reply to John Bieling (:TbSync) from comment #6)

Could you make suggestions for the (full) pref names for "https://addons.thunderbird.net" and "https://extension-finder.thunderbird.net" ? I have absolutely no experience there.

I would add them in here: https://searchfox.org/comm-central/source/mail/app/profile/all-thunderbird.js#157

And um, idk, maybe "extensions.canonical.url", "extensions.getAlternativeAddons.url".

Comment 8

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/d2ca6e25671a
Link incompatible add-ons to extension finder. r=mkmelin