BibSonomy Buttons Firefox addon needs to be migrated to WebExtensions

[Former user]

Firefox is discontinuing support non-WebExtension addons -- the plan is for them to no longer load as of Firefox 57. According to https://compatibility-lookup.services.mozilla.com/ , BibSonomy Buttons appears to be affected.

In addition, even before non-WebExtension addons become unusable, usage of BibSonomy Buttons on Firefox version 54 disables Multiprocess functionality.

These links may be useful (i have no affiliation with Mozilla, i'm just a happy Bibsonomy user):

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Working_with_multiprocess_Firefox

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Comparison_with_XUL_XPCOM_extensions

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/developer/communication#Don.27t_See_the_WebExtensions_APIs_You_Need.3F

[Andreas Hotho]

We should find a way to keep the plugin running...

[Robert Jäschke]

since webextensions is a standard also used by Chrome and Opera, please check whether the Chrome plugin is also affected or whether we could even have a unified plugin.

[Daniel Zoller]

moved to issue tracker of extension repo (https://bitbucket.org/bibsonomy/bibsonomy-browser-buttons-extensions/issues/18/migrate-firefox-plugin-to-webextensions)