Future plans for the extension :rocket:

[honsiorovskyi]

Hello everyone :wave:

First of all, thank you for your your interest, support, bug reports and high ratings on AMO! It always means a lot an I really appreciate it.

Second of all, very sorry for disappearing for a long time, I didn't have enough time to properly maintain the project and thus also didn't want to engage in any discussions that would result in just empty plans and promises.

During this my time off, a couple of things have changed.

• First, I almost completely forgot the codebase of the extension (:joy:), will have to remind myself what's there.
• Second, some security issues that v2 was supposed to address got addressed by the browser itself, so now they're not relevant.
• Third, I used both v1 and v2alpha of the extension, and there are some bugs and usability issues with v2 that I'd like to get rid of.
• Fourth, all your feedback needs to be taken into account.

That being said, I wanted to share with you some plans regarding this extension. Currently I'm thinking of the following things:

• stop working on v2 of the extension completely, instead
• start a new branch (v3?), using v1 as a base — it provides the core functionality, it's battle-tested and works quite well
• try to create some very minimal UI for it — something similar to v2alpha, but simlpified and hopefully with less bugs
• at the same time I'm also thinking of keeping core functionality in one extension and creating another one for the UI part, just to keep it small and simple for those who don't need the UI — I'll try to evaluate both options and see which one will be less confusing/complicated
• address the your feedback from the issues that have gathered during this time — please be patient, I'll try to address everything or provide some workaround, but I'm still short on capacity, so it will take some time
• potentially use some very lightweight framework for the UI, because current code seems to be fast but kinda overcomplicated and hard to support

I hope it all makes sense for you, and I'm looking forward to making this extension better :slightly_smiling_face:

Thank you and see you soon!

[rehanvdm]

No need to apologize, thank you very much for this project and the work you have done! Excited for what is ahead.

[Roy-Orbison]

Came here thinking I might fork and get it going again, then found a whole new version tucked away in the wings! I still rely on this awesome add-on, and look forward to version 3. Thanks.

[nitrocode]

Thanks for all your work.

Please consider this too

• https://github.com/honsiorovskyi/open-url-in-container/issues/88