WebExtensions?

[ntninja]

Unless I'm mistaken the only really important non-GUI browser API we need would be webRequest.onBeforeSendHeaders and that should be easy to integrate with. Everything else should be copy-paste from the current code base.

The only major porting pain-point are the settings:

Stored data is a problem for people trying to migrate from legacy add-on types, because the legacy add-ons can't use the WebExtension storage APIs, while WebExtensions can't use the legacy storage APIs. For example, if an SDK add-on uses the SDK's simple-prefs API to store preferences, the WebExtension version won't be able to access that data. (source)

The official workaround is to use the not-yet-released Embedded WebExtensions support, as a transition utility – not particularly appealing as requires the migration to be split into a least two steps and adds a lot of extra work and possible ways to fuck it up. Maybe it's not even worth it at all in this case?

Any thoughts on this topic?

[ntninja]

Fixed by #48