Future of Mozilla Lightbeam

It’s more a question than a support request, but… is Lightbeam still a thing? Or, to put it another way, will there be a WebExtension of Lightbeam or is Lightbeam dead?

I am asking here because:

  • Lightbeam is an add-on from Mozilla.
  • The e10s flag was set in Jule 2016, but the active development seems to have stopped already in November 2015 (according to GitHub commits).
  • Lightbeam perfectly fits in the goals of Mozilla, because it’s a great privacy add-on, so it’s definitively worth the effort to make a WebExtension version.

If this is not the right place to ask this question could someone redirect the question to the right contact?

Thanks.

@francois seems to be the current maintainer.

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The Web Extension rewrite of Lightbeam is tracked here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1342681

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And this is now updated :slight_smile:

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