RetroTxt for Firefox is stuck at v4.2.1

[darkred]

I see in the RetroTxt AMO that the latest version is still 4.2.1, dated Oct 16, 2022 .
But, there have been two releases since then, April's 5.1.0 and today's 5.2.0 (see Releases).

I don't see any failed workflows in Actions, so I thought to bring this to your attention.

Also, here are some probably related issues: #45, #69 .

Thank you.

[bengarrett]

Hi, thanks for the heads up. Unfortunately, the Firefox edition is stale at the moment.

Essentially, Google rushed to discontinue version 2 of the Extensions API in Chrome (used by RetroTxt v4.x). In RetroTxt v5, I migrated the code over to API version 3. But it isn't backward compatible and Firefox hasn't fully implemented it.

There's a note in the RetroTxt readme about this.

Firefox support will resume once its Manifest version 3 implementation reaches general availability.

[bengarrett]

Bugzilla tracking

[meta] Deprecate background pages in favor of service workers

[meta] Background Service Worker for Manifest v3

[bengarrett]

The navigator.serviceWorker.register() method accepts { type: "module" } to load scripts that use import and export. Also known as ECMAScript modules or ESM in service workers.

https://web-platform-dx.github.io/web-features-explorer/features/js-modules-service-workers/