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/
(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!