Thunderbird gone from AMO landing page?
(If this is the wrong place to discuss this, please kindly redirect me
to the right place.)
I visited AMO today and discovered that it is no longer possible to
browse Thunderbird add-ons from the home page.
I recall seeing emails cross my inbox recently about the work to set up
a new web site for Thunderbird add-ons, but I was under the impression
that work wasn't finished yet, and in any case even once it is done it
will take months and months for the changes to Thunderbird itself to
talk to the new site to propagate out to everywhere, won't it?
In the meantime, there's no web interface for browsing Thunderbird
add-ons? This doesn't seem optimal, to say the least.
All is not lost, though. It's still possible to view the page for an
add-on if you already know the URL and navigate to it directly. And once
you're on the page for an existing Thunderbird add-on, which is still
using the legacy AMO interface, you can search for other Thunderbird
add-ons from that page. Still, most users aren't going to be able to do
any of this.
Thanks,
Jonathan Kamens
On 14/12/2017 20:45, Jonathan Kamens wrote:
(If this is the wrong place to discuss this, please kindly redirect me
to the right place.)
I visited AMO today and discovered that it is no longer possible to
browse Thunderbird add-ons from the home page.
I recall seeing emails cross my inbox recently about the work to set
up a new web site for Thunderbird add-ons, but I was under the
impression that work wasn't finished yet, and in any case even once it
is done it will take months and months for the changes to Thunderbird
itself to talk to the new site to propagate out to everywhere, won't it?
In the meantime, there's no web interface for browsing Thunderbird
add-ons? This doesn't seem optimal, to say the least.
All is not lost, though. It's still possible to view the page for an
add-on if you already know the URL and navigate to it directly. And
once you're on the page for an existing Thunderbird add-on, which is
still using the legacy AMO interface, you can search for other
Thunderbird add-ons from that page. Still, most users aren't going to
be able to do any of this.
Thanks,
Jonathan Kamens
We're moving to a new add-ons site for TB. Andrei has the details.
Jörg.
On 2017-12-14 11:45 AM, Jonathan Kamens wrote:
(If this is the wrong place to discuss this, please kindly redirect me
to the right place.)
I visited AMO today and discovered that it is no longer possible to
browse Thunderbird add-ons from the home page.
I recall seeing emails cross my inbox recently about the work to set
up a new web site for Thunderbird add-ons, but I was under the
impression that work wasn't finished yet, and in any case even once it
is done it will take months and months for the changes to Thunderbird
itself to talk to the new site to propagate out to everywhere, won't it?
In the meantime, there's no web interface for browsing Thunderbird
add-ons? This doesn't seem optimal, to say the least.
The classic site is still available https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/
You don't need the URL - there is a link at the bottom of the new
front-end on addons.mozilla.org that says "view classic site", that's
how you get to the old site. It's not ideal, no, but even a lot of
Firefox-related functionality still requires you to click that and the
AMO team decided that that was visible enough /shrug. The new front-end
is kind of bare bones, but this is a transitional period.
You can still search for and install add-ons from within Thunderbird as
well. https://addons.thunderbird.net/ exists but it's been slow going
because I'm waiting on things from Mozilla(finally got a database clone,
now I need a dump of xpis and icons).