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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: 4, Insightful) by Bot on Monday January 30 2017, @08:53AM
ask seamonkey if they are going to go the firefox route, if they are not just port the extensions to seamonkey and let firefox become the useless chrome clone.
Seamonkey or palemoon. In fact I would love palemoon seamonkey and extension authors split up the responsibilities and come with an extensible browser. No commercial entities will ever do that, because they want the user to interact manually with the browser as much as possible to profile it.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 30 2017, @10:34AM
Unfortunately it looks like SeaMonkey will lose the extensions API as well. [google.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 30 2017, @02:02PM
Thunderbird still uses XUL extensions. Since Firefox's new extension API is going to be based on the one that Chrome uses, it may not be appropriate for an application that's not a browser, and in any case it may not be feasible to port all of Lightning (calendar) over to the new model. It wouldn't surprise me if Thunderbird kept the XUL extension model even after Firefox dropped it. In any case, I imagine SeaMonkey would do the same as Thunderbird.
Does anyone know what Thunderbird really does plan on doing?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 31 2017, @01:59AM
From the GP: Seamonkey or palemoon
Pale Moon forked the Gecko rendering engine some time back.
Their new thing is called Goanna (named for a type of large-ish lizard).
So, to do what the GP envisions, SeaMonkey would first have to switch to Goanna.
I rather doubt that will happen.
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(Score: 5, Informative) by number6 on Monday January 30 2017, @01:10PM
Go to the "versions" sub-page; for example....:https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/versions/
Change the address string /firefox/ to /android/ and reload the page, i.e.....:https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/android/addon/greasemonkey/versions/
Choose the version you want to download, right-click on the hyperlinked button and save.
• Redirector -- this addon allows you to specify a destination for matching Regex or Widcard patterns; i.e: it redirects you to a different URL from the one you clicked on. ....:https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/redirector/ ....:http://einaregilsson.com/redirector/
An example config for this task:
Example URL ...............:https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/versions/
Include Pattern ...........:https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/*/versions/
Redirect To ...............:https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/android/addon/$1/versions/
Pattern Type ..............:Wildcard