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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 30 2017, @08:47AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 30 2017, @08:47AM (#460570)

    Yes. A few months ago, I finally found an acceptable replacement: Vivaldi. Unfortunately, even though it has had many updates, several being major updates, one thing stayed constant: It would crash at least once every day.

    In the end, I switched back to Firefox.

    Suggestions are welcome. I have already tried an discarded the following: Chrom*, Palemoon, Opera and now Vivaldi, plus a bunch of minor open source browsers I don't even remember the names of.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Aiwendil on Monday January 30 2017, @10:14AM

    by Aiwendil (531) on Monday January 30 2017, @10:14AM (#460583) Journal

    Otter Browser [otter-browser.org], it aims for the UI of Opera 12.x but with a webkit engine (it is qt-based).

    I'm in the process of preparing to migrate over to it from O12 on my main machine.

    Oh, and it works surprisingly well on a RPi3 as well

    • (Score: 2) by boltronics on Monday January 30 2017, @02:59PM

      by boltronics (580) on Monday January 30 2017, @02:59PM (#460653) Homepage Journal

      There's also QupZilla [qupzilla.com] and Midori [midori-browser.org]. QupZilla has a nice password manager that supports encryption, whereas Midori has a built in per-domain script blocker. Decisions...

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      It's GNU/Linux dammit!

  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday January 30 2017, @04:07PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Monday January 30 2017, @04:07PM (#460677)

    I have already tried an discarded the following: Chrom*, Palemoon

    What problem did you find with Pale Moon that Firefox doesn't have as well? Or are you referring solely to their sustainability?

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    "Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"