Re: A heads up about extensions in 3.8

[Rudra Banerjee <bnrj rudra yahoo com>]

Hello Xan and other developers,
As I can see, you have a HUGE task ahead.
If possible, can you also look at the bug I reported months back? 
This is, as possibly, may be a webkit bug(as told in the irc), but
Chromium/Chrome are not affected. 
The bug is reported https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82504

That will be really helpful. Sorry if I flooded a rather serious
discussion with my issue.
On Tue, 2012-10-23 at 11:58 +0200, Xan Lopez wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> as discussed in a thread[1] and a bug[2] some time ago there are some
> problems with the traditional extension model in epiphany. I recommend
> to read those links, but just to summarize:
> 
> - The traditional extension model available in Epiphany has several
> serious problems.
> - Extensions run in the main browser process, making it more unstable.
> - The API surface exposed to them it's huge. Hard to keep it stable
> when you want to improve the browser fast.
> - Forces people to use relatively obscure technologies to do simple things.
> 
> On top of all these, and as we have said a number of times, our plan
> for 3.8 is to switch epiphany to use WebKit2. This would immediately
> invalidate all extensions (or at least the few remaining ones that do
> actually work), so as you can see we are in a bit of a situation. For
> this reason the epiphany maintainers have agreed:
> 
> - To integrate in the core browser the really popular extensions that
> we receive feedback about and that people complain when they break.
> This basically means 'adblock', which will be available in 3.7.1 as
> part of the core browser.
> - To remove the support for traditional extensions in ephy. This is
> also already done in 3.7.1, so the existing extensions *will not* work
> from now on.
> - To start the process of defining the future extension model for
> ephy, based on the out-of-process web-based technologies used in
> Chrome or Firefox.
> 
> Obviously this last step requires a big effort, so we absolutely
> welcome everyone interested in seeing a lot of well supported and
> interesting extensions for ephy to join us in this project. We still
> think a strong extension ecosystem around a lean core is a great idea,
> and we hope this decision will actually get us closer to that future.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Xan
> 
> 1: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/epiphany-list/2012-August/msg00002.html
> 2: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=646597#c18
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