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It seems like it was cool. Why did it die? Can we bring it back?

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1 minute ago, captain_to_fire said:

@colonel_mortis can correct me on this but I think the reason why the Firefox notifier was killed is because Firefox itself now has notifications.

 

 

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26 minutes ago, captain_to_fire said:

@colonel_mortis can correct me on this but I think the reason why the Firefox notifier was killed is because Firefox itself now has notifications.

 

 

 

I thought it was more because FF57 added a new extension system and that old extensions were no longer compatible, and that the work needed to update the extension wasn't worth it.

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1 hour ago, 2FA said:

I thought it was more because FF57 added a new extension system and that old extensions were no longer compatible, and that the work needed to update the extension wasn't worth it.

that too https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions

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It's explained in the thread.

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I stopped supporting it because the functionality had been mostly replaced by the forum itself, and it stopped working when Mozilla changed the extension API to web extensions, which meant that the old extension stopped working.

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On 9/29/2018 at 12:26 AM, OrbitalBuzzsaw said:

It seems like it was cool. Why did it die? Can we bring it back?

It's coming back sometime in the future :P. Just not from Mortis.

 

TL:DR Last year Mozilla informed people they were deprecating a lot of the stuff existing FireFox Extensions relied on and Mortis decided that he didn't want to re-write the existing extension. And when Mozilla made the changes, the extension ceased to work.

 

I am working on a re-write with another person. We're hoping to have some kind of pre-release version available before the end of this year.

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3 hours ago, AluminiumTech said:

I am working on a re-write with another person. We're hoping to have some kind of pre-release version available before the end of this year.

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Didn't use the old one, but I'm curious if there would be any benefit to an extension for the forum since Firefox already has built in notifications? Wouldn't it be a similar case to the mobile app where the browser version works well enough that there's no need to develop an alternative?

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3 hours ago, Spotty said:

Didn't use the old one, but I'm curious if there would be any benefit to an extension for the forum since Firefox already has built in notifications? Wouldn't it be a similar case to the mobile app where the browser version works well enough that there's no need to develop an alternative?

The benefit is actually same as what app would have. Now site needs to be open in tab in order for notifications to be shown. With addon that wasn't a thing. It would call up site once browser was launched, even before user even opens site.

 

I probably wouldn't install it again. I've already got used to relying only forums own notifs.

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