The vastly-ignored-but-how-awesome addon Browse Periodically (github repo) stopped working with Firefox 47. From the Add-on Compatibility for Firefox 47 blog post, I got the hint that something might have broke in the TabOpen/TabClose API, used by periodicbrowsing.js but having no experience in addon development, I have no means to test my hypothesis. I also have been looking for a way to access the addon logs, with no success: I have no idea where to find those.
This addon is critical to my workflow and I’m anyway interested in learning more on addons development so I’m considering taking over this addon’s maintenance, but would you advice to learn to old XUL APIs and stuffs to try fixing it as is, or should I go straight to learning the new API and rebuild it from there? In any of those cases, links to good resources are very welcome!
Have a great day,
Maxime