The CCK2 Wizard cannot easily be ported to a WebExtension due to some
internal things that it does (reading prefs, reading search engines,
creating zip files, reading/writing files, etc.). I've thought about
possibility porting it to a web application, but I think some folks would
be concerned of the security implications.

But honestly, because anyone can just download the Firefox 52 ESR and run
the CCK2 Wizard there, I don't consider this to be a problem. The CCK2
Wizard is something that actually isn't typically needed every day by
folks, so I expect when you need it you'll just use the 52 ESR to run it.

As far as support for Firefox 57 and beyond, this is the reason I've been
encouraging folks to move to Autoconfig instead of using XPI files.
Autoconfig should continue to work for the near future. I expect there to
be some breakage in Firefox 57, particular around UI options (Sync and
private browsing), and I will address those as they happen. I'm honestly
not doing any testing on Firefox 57 right now, but so far no one has
reported anything to me on the beta.

And to answer the question about support about Pale Moon and other
browsers, I see no technical reason why it can't work, but I'm not going to
do anything to support it. As always, patches are accepted:

https://github.com/mkaply/cck2wizard

Mike Kaply



On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 9:38 AM, Mossroy <[email protected]> wrote:

> In fact, it's 2 different questions :
>
> - we deploy autoconfig scripts generated by CCK2 : will they still work
> with Firefox>=57? I suppose they will, as it's pure javascript code, with
> no link with extension technologies
>
> - will the CCK2 Wizard still work on Firefox>=57? I'm talking about the
> Firefox extension (installed from https://mike.kaply.com/cck2/), that
> lets us generate the autoconfig. I'm asking because it does not look like a
> webextension.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mossroy
>
>
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