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

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: 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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