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The respected Firefox add-on developer Quicksaver announced yesterday that he won't update any of his extensions anymore because of Mozilla's decision to move to WebExtensions exclusively. Quicksaver, responsible for add-ons such as Tab Groups, OmniSidebar, FindBar Tweak, Beyond Australis and Puzzle Bars, had four of his five add-ons for Firefox featured by Mozilla in the past.
If you open any of the author's add-on pages on the Mozilla Add-ons repository, you will notice an important announcement on the page. It reads:
IMPORTANT: The add-on will not receive any more updates and will stop working by next November with Firefox 57.[...] Quicksaver posted an explanation on his website that reveals why he made the decision to stop add-on development. There are several reasons, but the core reason given is that at least four of his five add-ons rely heavily on functionality that will either not be provided by WebExtensions, or would require him to rewrite the extension almost completely.
[...] Quicksaver is not the only author who announced that he will stop working on add-ons for Firefox. Add-ons like New Tab Tools, Classic Theme Restorer, Tree Style Tabs, Open With, DownThem All, KeeFox and many others are likely also not going to make the cut.
Source: http://www.ghacks.net/2017/01/28/firefox-add-on-quicksaver-quits/
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 30 2017, @06:31AM
Obvious plan to stay "relevant" includes:
- change User Agent to Chrome. It rocks, everyone uses it. *
- drop all new or old code, including e10s and just use the same guts than Chrome. Easier compatibility with what everyone uses. If extension developers can trash their work, so can Mozilla, it's the only way forward, right?
- start sending telemetry to anybody that asks. Yeah, every big guy does it, so Mozilla must too.
Yet they wil slide into oblivion, even more. They don't realize they are losing to Chrome not due to features or speed ** , but because Google pushes Chrome in every page, and via every third party they can. Mozilla is not as relevant for official specifications as they were. They had the extensions advantage, but not anymore by end of year. They have fooled around with privacy, so dropping that last feature will be "natural".
Classic cargo cult: they think they know why something happens/will happen, when they don't understand what the real issue is. Wake up or just give up already, disband, die, end the long suffering. Let someone else take over (PaleMoon, time for FSF to push hard, whatever). You know it's true, dear Silicon Graphics, I mean SGI, I mean Mozilla, errr.. fuck, moz://a, yeah, that.
*: we can help with this one, as they don't care about users, so change your UA and help with the suicide.
**: comm'n, sometimes it was better, sometimes not, passable enough in many cases (every time I heard "FF eats memory", "Chrome is a memory pig" was near) and taking into acount the rest they offered (past tense, not true in some cases now): an independent browser, with high configurability, open source, extra programs like local mail client.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 30 2017, @06:46AM
What nu-mozilla is engaged in is purging every trace that links the browser to the old non-SJW approved staff.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 30 2017, @06:51AM
The only thing keeping me on firefox is no-script. I just did not like the alternatives.
(Score: 2) by WizardFusion on Monday January 30 2017, @10:09AM
Try Script-Block on Chrome. Way better
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Arik on Monday January 30 2017, @01:11PM
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 30 2017, @07:20PM
Back to my original point. I did not like the other ones. With that one fine grained control of who is in or out is not easily done from the GUI. You have to dig into the preferences to get it to act correctly.
I personally like ad-block plus over ublock. I think the interface is better. However, it is massively slower.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 30 2017, @05:42PM
i like umatrix way better
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 30 2017, @08:51AM
Yet they wil slide into oblivion, even more. They don't realize they are losing to Chrome not due to features or speed ** , but because Google pushes Chrome in every page, and via every third party they can.
In the first place they are losing to Chrome because they decided to compete on having the biggest advertising budget rather than maintaining the niche they had carved out for themselves.
Any products that look and behave the same are competing on advertising budget. The alternative is being different, and every Firefox update for years now has been removing the things that make Firefox different.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 30 2017, @02:05PM
They're loosing because they keep trying to be Chrome, not realizing that the people who prefer Chrome are going to just use Chrome anyway and meanwhile the people who liked Firefox the way it was but don't like Chrome are getting increasingly fed up and leaving for other browsers. The Pale Moon fork exists because of people who wanted the Firefox UI to just stay as it was and understood that there was no reason why the security updates couldn't be done without screwing up the UI every couple months.
(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Monday January 30 2017, @05:38PM
sudo mod me up
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 30 2017, @05:53PM
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UAControl
RefControl
Set RefControl: "Default for site not listed:" to "" and check 3rd Party requests only.
Whitelist disqus and other crap if you want.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 30 2017, @11:17PM
April 1st is approaching, best day to show the future in (dark) humorous way. They were the ones that exchanged pranks with MSIE after all. Maybe fill bugs asking the User Agent string change ASAP?
Anybody with stuffed dolls of Mozilla or Firefox? Checked and the Netscape green dino goes for a lot on Ebay now. Red dino and fox could be in same case soon. Anyhow, we can setup the scenes without damaging the dolls. Mouth or similar details can be image edits.
Mascot hung from rope or computer cable, tipped over chair below. Mascot with red paper or cloth flowing from wrists. Mascot feet seen coming out of bucket (no water needed, just side view) and cable from wall socket going in. Mascot on the ground with empty pill bottle. Mascot on ground, pistol near and red cotton over other side of head. Mascot with head inside oven.
Accident scenes would work too. Covered by wooden letter blocks (a, b, c...). Run over by robot car, or toy looking car (same thing, remember to add the roof sensor, black plastic pot).