Are there any bugzilla issues open with Mozilla for support?

[huffstler]

At the very least someone there will get back to you on why or not what you're requesting is feasible / already being worked on or not.

[joaomgcd]

There are not actually :) Do you know what the best place to put this would be? thanks!

[huffstler]

Here's the main page. You'll have to make an account, and it's recommended to search for your bug/feature request before writing one, but it should do the trick

and if you decide to make one (or several) can you link them back here so I can follow them as well? I was thinking about giving developing the extension a try as I haven't before.

[joaomgcd]

Thank you! :)

Added the bug here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1378096

Hopefully they'll take a look!

[Dracon23]

You're aware that this WILL break once 57 hits the floor running?

They dropped all support for XUL and XPCOM "addons" now.

[joaomgcd]

What will break exactly? Can you clarify?

[Dracon23]

They've dropped the whole XUL/XPCOM infrastructure from what I can gather, so unless you rework the addon to use the new (I think it's called WebExtensions) Addon API, the addon will not work anymore.

I just took a first look at 57 (as it just hit my distributions' package repos), and a lot of addons just gave me the finger. (Basically I'm fine with just uBlock, but NoScript is a decent addition to it=

[joaomgcd]

But this add-on is already using the WebExtensions format :)

[Dracon23]

Eh, okay, I'll shut up and sit back down :F

I couldn't get it to work for some reason or other, but that may be related to my (rather peculiar) setup here.

[joaomgcd]

You couldn't get it to work probably because this is a very early version... Unless Firefox adds support for push messaging in add-ons there's no point in continuing development on this unfortunately.

[Dracon23]

Ah, too bad then, cause I really want to get rid of chrome atm...

[jacktose]

To be fair, they have support, just not the way you want to do it. The main reason I switched back to Pushbullet is that the Firefox addon has notifications.

[joaomgcd]

Well, they support websockets, yes, but unfortunately I can't afford those. :( They should really add support for Web Push, since Firefox can already receive those natively.

[indivisible-irl]

With how stale the FF issue is, any possibilities of getting custom, self hosted push notification support? I understand not wanting to shoulder the costs for a free extension but having the option to configure a self- or cloud-hosted solution could go a long way to making this viable on FF again.

I'd vote for AWS personally as I already maintain stuff over there but any of the 3 big cloud providers and/or 3rd party FOSS solutions would be great to have an option to integrate manually. That is, unless there is a real possibility of FF actually adding the missing features to the WebExtensions API any time soon, then obv not worth the time/effort.

[joaomgcd]

I'm actually in the process of implementing something that might give partial support for firefox :) Stay tuned...

[Rohaq]

🍿 Looking forward to it, I've been making a concerted effort to move away from Chrome lately, and I'd hate to have to resort to PushBullet :)