SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
Firefox 57, which is slated for release on November 14, will "only run WebExtensions", according to Mozilla.
This is expected to break compatibility with many existing Firefox extensions, and in many cases there aren't WebExtensions-compatible alternatives available for these extensions.
During some recent discussion at Slashdot, it became clear that some users have nearly all of their extensions classified as "legacy", and susceptible to breakage.
Members of the SoylentNews community, if you use Firefox, how many of your extensions are set to no longer work with Firefox in the near future?
If Firefox 57 breaks compatibility with your existing extensions, will this finally be enough for you to discard Firefox and find an alternative browser to use?
Will this extension breakage, and subsequent loss of users, effectively end the viability of Firefox as a modern web browser?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Sunday August 13 2017, @01:00PM (3 children)
I don't see a troll post there. I don't guess it matters a lot to AC, but it's not a troll post. Firefox has forgotten it's mission. Any number of us can argue who, what, when, where, and why for days and days, and still not agree on a specific point in time. But, the fact is, Firefox has forgotten it's mission. Way back when, Firefox was going to be the leanest, meanest, fastest, bestest, and most securest web browser in existence. And, it was that, for awhile. Then, they got distracted with screwing a pooch, then another pooch, and eventually, Firefox is just as bad a fleabag as any of the pooches.
Specifically, TFS and TFA question whether this last bitch is the straw that broke the cameltoe. (I heard that one on the radio, LOL)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 13 2017, @01:14PM
It hasn't been lean since it was called Phoenix. It got renamed and bloaty, then renamed again to Firefox.
(Score: 2) by moondrake on Sunday August 13 2017, @05:20PM
I agree that Firefox has been doing a lot of silly things over the last few years but:
1) that post has no arguments what so ever.
2) It voices an opinion using..lets call it not very sophisticated language.
To me, it is just plain dumb. It maybe not a troll but it sure as hell is not very interesting not insightful (which is what it is modding now that I am reading this).
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 14 2017, @02:35AM
This is how Mozilla has been since the START. The only reason they had the success they did was because of the guy who developed phoenix, which eventually became firefox, and the luck of firefox becoming popular right about the time they finally got JIT support so they could enhance/ruin firefox by adding XUL support to it. When that happened it both inevitably was on the path to its modern shittiness, as well as having the plugin support that ended up making it so great for so many people.
The original phoenix was gtk2 without plugin support. The plugin support and xul in general was AFAIR one of the reasons that original dev left after being ousted from his lead position when he let phoenix/firefox become an official mozilla project.