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Mozilla core have disabled "legacy" add-ons in Firefox 57. Since this type of add-on is not supported from mozilla57 any more, a lot of interfaces have been removed from Mozilla core. | Mozilla core have disabled "legacy" add-ons (not based purely on WebExtensions) in Firefox 57. Since this type of add-on is not supported from mozilla57 any more, a lot of interfaces have been removed from Mozilla core. | ||
However, Thunderbird 57-59 and Seamonkey still support these addons if the appropriate modifications are done to adapt to the changed interfaces. | |||
These are: | These are: | ||
* Removed in mozilla57: | * Removed in mozilla57: | ||
** nsILocalFile | ** nsILocalFile -- replacement: nsIFile | ||
** extIApplication, nsIEntityConverter | ** extIApplication, nsIEntityConverter | ||
** nsIProgrammingLanguage | ** nsIProgrammingLanguage | ||
** nsILocaleService and friends | ** nsILocaleService and friends | ||
** nsIScriptableDateFormat | ** nsIScriptableDateFormat -- replacement: Intl.DateTimeFormat | ||
** nsIFilePicker.show() | ** nsIFilePicker.show() -- replacement: nsIFilePicker.open() | ||
** nsIDownloadManager | ** nsIDownloadManager | ||
** Promise.jsm | ** Promise.jsm | ||
** nsIPrefBranch2 and nsIPrefBranchInternal | ** nsIPrefBranch2 and nsIPrefBranchInternal -- replacement: nsIPrefBranch | ||
** nsIExternalProtocolService::LoadUrl | ** nsIExternalProtocolService::LoadUrl | ||
* JS and XUL changes in mozilla57 [https://www.fxsitecompat.com/en-CA/versions/57/] | * JS and XUL changes in mozilla57 [https://www.fxsitecompat.com/en-CA/versions/57/] | ||
** for ( | ** `for each ()` construct [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/for_each...in] -- replacement: 'for (x of object)' or 'for (x of Object.values())' | ||
** `with` construct [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/with] | ** `with` construct [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/with] | ||
** catch (ex if ex instanceof ExceptionType) | ** catch (ex if ex instanceof ExceptionType) (actually removed in mozilla47 already) | ||
** In XUL files, JS files | ** versioned Javascript support -- replacement: In XUL files, links to JS files using <script type="application/x-javascript" ... > or <script type="application/x-javascript;version=1.7" ... >, change to <script type="application/javascript" ... > | ||
** __iterator__ and Iterator() | |||
* Changes in thunderbird57 | |||
** steelIApplication (removed due to removal of extIApplication) -- replacement: Services, AppConstants | |||
** for (x in fixIterator(obj)) (removed due to removal of __iterator__) -- replacement: for (x of fixIterator(obj)) | |||
* Removed in mozilla58 | * Removed in mozilla58 | ||
** Date.prototype.toLocaleFormat | ** Date.prototype.toLocaleFormat | ||
** {get,set}ComplexValue use of nsISupportsString | ** {get,set}ComplexValue use of nsISupportsString -- replacement: {get,set}StringPref() | ||
** Mechanism to store add-on preferences in defaults/preferences/xx.js. See {{bug|1414398}}. '''Thunderbird 58 Beta not affected due to backout of this core change.''' | ** Mechanism to store add-on preferences in defaults/preferences/xx.js. See {{bug|1414398}}. '''Thunderbird 58 Beta not affected due to backout of this core change.''' | ||
* JS changes in mozilla58 [https://www.fxsitecompat.com/en-CA/versions/58/] | * JS changes in mozilla58 [https://www.fxsitecompat.com/en-CA/versions/58/] | ||
** StopIteration [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/Web/StopIteration] | ** StopIteration [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/Web/StopIteration] | ||
* Removed in mozilla59 | * Removed in mozilla59 | ||