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The latest sh*t storm in Thunderbird land

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The announcement to discontinue support for Webextension Experiment add-on the monthly Thunderbird release channel starting at version 153 caused a small sh*t storm. This would affect these popular add-ons:

  • ImportExportTools NG, 280k average daily users
  • Provider for Google Calendar, 153k users
  • LookOut (fix version), 146k users
  • Send Later, 116k users
  • Remove Duplicate Messages, 95k users
  • Quicktext, 85k users
  • Grammar and Spell Checker — LanguageTool, 73k users
  • Mail Merge, 72k users
  • CardBook, 62k users

Betterbird and Thunderbird ESR are not affected.

One add-on developer submitted this picture:

fist coming out of screen

Read the thread for yourself here.