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Tips, Tricks & Examples for Thunderbird E-mail New Add-On Development
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Tips, Tricks & Examples for Thunderbird E-mail New Add-On Development

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/cleidigh/ThunderStorm
• Owner: cleidigh
• License: mit
• Created: 2019-03-15T04:03:03.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-07-23T07:30:25.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-01T16:40:16.863Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: thunderbird, thunderbird-addon, thunderbird-extension
• Language: HTML
• Size: 3.77 MB
• Stars: 17
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 7
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# ![Thunderstorm icon](rep-resources/images/thunderstorm.png) ThunderStorm

## Tips, Tricks & Examples for Thunderbird E-mail New Add-On Development

The goal of this repository is to provide examples in order to better "weather"

the transition to Thunderbird's new extension structure. The new paradigm follows

the *WebExtension* standard followed by most browsers these days.

Obviously Thunderbird has different requirements from a browser extension even if

Thunderbird relies and is based on Mozilla's Gecko core framework. Focus will be on

the differences and transition issues. The new structure adapted to Thunderbird is

termed *MailExtension*.

To get started with MailExtensions, we suggest to check out these resources first:

* [Comparison between XUL/XPCOM Extensions and WebExtensions](https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/develop/comparison-with-xul-xpcom-extensions/)

* [Thunderbird Add-On Developer Guide](https://developer.thunderbird.net/add-ons/about-add-ons)

* [MailExtension API Documentation](https://thunderbird-webextensions.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)

The approach I have taken is not so much a tutorial, but rather a set of references

including working examples and other transition information.

Hopefully this approach will help both new and seasoned developers.  For both,

pointers to other tutorials or related documentation is also included.

## Table of Contents

  - [TB78 MailExtension Examples - How to get things done][MailExtensions]

  - [TB60 to TB68 Conversion Examples][TB68Conversion]

  - [Scaffolding: Bare metal folder & file structures - Copy and go!][Scaffolding]

## Credits

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[MailExtensions]:/examples/MailExtensions/README.md

[TB68Conversion]:/examples/TB68Conversions/README.md

[Scaffolding]:/examples/scaffolds/README.md