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Opened Nov 10, 2019 by segfault@segfaultMaintainer5 of 5 tasks completed5/5 tasks

Replace TorBirdy

Originally created by @segfault on #17219 (Redmine)

TorBirdy is not compatible with Thunderbird 68.

Quoting from #17149 (comment 1509):

Thunderbird 68 already only supports MailExtensions, but legacy extensions can supposedly be converted to MailExtensions relatively easily: It requires converting the old RDF manifest to a JSON manifest, and then in the JSON manifest the legacy key can be used to load the legacy XUL extension.
https://developer.thunderbird.net/add-ons/tb68
https://developer.thunderbird.net/add-ons/tb68/overlays

In either Thunderbird 72 or 78, the support for loading a legacy XUL extension via the JSON manifest will be removed. I still don’t understand in which version that will be removed, the page is titled “Updating Legacy Extensions for Thunderbird 78” but it then says “it should be [removed] whitin the Thunderbird 72 time frame - so by end of 2019”.
https://developer.thunderbird.net/add-ons/tb78

So we could spend some time to convert the manifest and try getting TorBirdy to work in Thunderbird 68, but that would only work for a few months. I think that instead we should try to implement and test a Tails-specific solution ASAP.

It would be great if other privacy distributions could reuse our solution (we should communicate with them about this).

Feature Branch: feature/17219-replace-torbirdy

Subtasks

  • #17220 (closed)
  • #17221 (closed)
  • #17222 (closed)
  • #17259 (closed)
  • #17270 (closed)

Related issues

  • Related to #17149 (closed)
  • Related to #17281 (closed)
  • Blocks #16771 (closed)
Edited May 15, 2020 by segfault
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Reference: tails/tails#17219