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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 30 2017, @09:00AM
KDE is not as bad as it was. I run latest version on zesty and it finally feels like kde has reached that vision for which it dumped kde3.
(Score: 2) by KritonK on Tuesday January 31 2017, @02:54PM
And then they scrapped KDE 4, to which I assume you are referring, and which was supposed to be a major rewrite that would allow them to move forward, and came up with KDE 5, with fewer features and greater instability. I'm sure that when/if KDE 5 gets to be on par with KDE 4, they'll scrap it in favor of KDE 6.