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Firefox Loses Yet Another High Profile Add-on Author

posted by Fnord666 on Monday January 30 2017, @05:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the soon-it'll-be-IE dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

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/

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Whoever on Monday January 30 2017, @06:58AM

    by Whoever (4524) on Monday January 30 2017, @06:58AM (#460551) Journal

    By taking Yahoo's money instead of Google's, they provided Google with a strong reason to kill FireFox.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 30 2017, @08:44AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 30 2017, @08:44AM (#460569)

    They merely sped up what google had already in mind, the prevalence of its own spyware^W browser.

  • (Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Monday January 30 2017, @11:34AM

    by GungnirSniper (1671) on Monday January 30 2017, @11:34AM (#460602) Journal

    Google was going to kill Firefox anyway. It was just a matter of time.

  • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Monday January 30 2017, @11:36AM

    by TheRaven (270) on Monday January 30 2017, @11:36AM (#460603) Journal
    They only started doing that after Google had released their own web browser and were pushing it heavily with adverts. It's generally not a good idea for your primary revenue stream to be from a company that has a competing product to yours.
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