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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, @11:17PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 30 2017, @11:17PM (#460846)

    April 1st is approaching, best day to show the future in (dark) humorous way. They were the ones that exchanged pranks with MSIE after all. Maybe fill bugs asking the User Agent string change ASAP?

    Anybody with stuffed dolls of Mozilla or Firefox? Checked and the Netscape green dino goes for a lot on Ebay now. Red dino and fox could be in same case soon. Anyhow, we can setup the scenes without damaging the dolls. Mouth or similar details can be image edits.

    Mascot hung from rope or computer cable, tipped over chair below. Mascot with red paper or cloth flowing from wrists. Mascot feet seen coming out of bucket (no water needed, just side view) and cable from wall socket going in. Mascot on the ground with empty pill bottle. Mascot on ground, pistol near and red cotton over other side of head. Mascot with head inside oven.

    Accident scenes would work too. Covered by wooden letter blocks (a, b, c...). Run over by robot car, or toy looking car (same thing, remember to add the roof sensor, black plastic pot).