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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: 2) by maxwell demon on Monday January 30 2017, @07:48AM
Yes. The inertial force is strong in me. ;-)
But now, knowing that the vast majority of extensions I care about won't work any more in Firefox, the tipping point has been reached.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Monday January 30 2017, @08:23AM
OK, had my first negative experience with Pale Moon.
After installation, I saw a big button "Customize" — nice. However, when I clicked it, it asked me to open an account. What? I need an account to customize my browser??? And the page doesn't even say what I'd sign up to!
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 3, Informative) by frojack on Monday January 30 2017, @09:10AM
Vivaldi has more customization than you can shake a stick at.
Firefox is dead.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Magic Oddball on Monday January 30 2017, @11:00AM
Does Vivaldi let us change themes or at least force it to color–match our operating system theme? Last I heard, users had no option regarding its appearance, which isn't acceptable given I hate the “revenge of the Windows XP designers” look.**
**I have a pet theory that the people who designed XP's built–in ‘Luna’ theme got jobs at Google & Apple in order to get revenge on everyone that compared Luna to Fisher–Price toys. “Let’s see how you like it when it's utterly flat and takes over not only your desktop OSes, but software, phones and websites so you can’t get away from it! Bwahahahahaha!!!”
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday January 30 2017, @06:01PM
> I hate the “revenge of the Windows XP designers” look
*looks at his "classic windows" 2D unaccelerated boring Win98-looking theme with no transparencies or animations*
*Checks his Folding@Home GPU contribution*
*Wonders if anything of value is missing*
(Score: 1) by toddestan on Wednesday February 01 2017, @03:56AM
The thing is, Luna was anything but flat and colorless like things are now. The taskbar, start menu, window borders, title bars, etc. all had gradients and a rounded appearance to give things kind of a 3D look. It did have the problem that some things, like the start button, didn't actually look like a button, but really the biggest problem was the garish colors and the fact they just way overdid it. Microsoft really didn't adopt the flat look until Windows 8.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 30 2017, @06:21PM
Except that it is proprietary with free software components. That, to me, makes it worthless.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Magic Oddball on Monday January 30 2017, @10:44AM
I just checked with a new clean profile: there's no "customize" button in the toolbar or default landing page, and accounts are still a purely optional thing just for use for the sync server. It certainly wouldn't require an account to just customize it.
The official Pale Moon site is PaleMoon.org [palemoon.org] — did you get the installer from there, or somewhere else? (I know many Linux distros have it in their repositories at this point.)
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Monday January 30 2017, @07:32PM
I've used the download instruction from here. [palemoon.org] Note the domain: linux.palemoon.org. The actual installer I downloaded from the link on that page, https://linux.palemoon.org/files/pminstaller/0.2.2/pminstaller-0.2.2.tar.bz2 [palemoon.org] — I also compared the SHA-256 checksum with the one on the page, so unless the site was hacked, I should have gotten the correct one. Here is an image of what I get after starting palemoon. [imgur.com] I've marked the position of the Customize button.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2, Touché) by ThatIrritatingGuy on Tuesday January 31 2017, @03:41AM
This is part of a website, not the browser, you Schnitzel!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 30 2017, @07:54PM
You don't need an account for the sync server. It's kind of a bitch to set it up, but the sync/account servers are freely available and customizable with about:config strings.
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Monday January 30 2017, @10:43PM
He got confused by the start.me home screen, which if you sign up to it you can tweak the links on the home screen. The customize as you can see here [start.me] he is talking about is in the top right.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Hairyfeet on Monday January 30 2017, @10:40PM
Uhh that isn't for the browser friend, that is for the third party home screen which you can easily get rid of. If you want to customize your browser you do it the same as with the older FF, tools>options or if you want even more power there is PaleMoon Commander [palemoon.org].
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.