Is it possible to monitor updates made for addons? I would like to have some kind of a news feed which informs we whenever a new version of an addon is uploaded to addons.thunderbird.net. It would be great if this feed would also contain a changelog and the supported thunderbird versions. Is there something similar available somewhere?
Mathias
Monitor addon updates?
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tanstaafl
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Re: Monitor addon updates?
Not that I'm aware of.
According to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1574183 support for automatically updating add-ons when the application was updated was killed two years ago due to a change in Gecko (i.e. Firefox developers removed it from a toolkit library both products use). It had been a handy feature. I think your best bet nowadays is to periodically go to tools -> add-ons and from the gear like icon select "view recent updates" if you want to explicitly manage when they update. You can still configure each add-on to automatically update itself when an update is available. Click on the add-on in tools -> add-ons and it should give a full description of the add-on and at the bottom provide radio buttons to manage automatic updates.
According to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1574183 support for automatically updating add-ons when the application was updated was killed two years ago due to a change in Gecko (i.e. Firefox developers removed it from a toolkit library both products use). It had been a handy feature. I think your best bet nowadays is to periodically go to tools -> add-ons and from the gear like icon select "view recent updates" if you want to explicitly manage when they update. You can still configure each add-on to automatically update itself when an update is available. Click on the add-on in tools -> add-ons and it should give a full description of the add-on and at the bottom provide radio buttons to manage automatic updates.
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sfhowes
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Re: Monitor addon updates?
Add this to TB feeds or similar: https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/th ... format:rss
There is also a Subscribe link on this page: https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/th ... rt=updated
There is also a Subscribe link on this page: https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/th ... rt=updated
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tanstaafl
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Re: Monitor addon updates?
Mathias, could you clarify whether you're looking for information on all updates or just updates to your add-ons?
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mathiasw
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Re: Monitor addon updates?
sfhowes thank you for the link. This looks very promising.