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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: 2) by t-3 on Sunday August 13 2017, @03:06PM (2 children)
I've been using luakit. Vimish controls, works well with tiling (the renderer used to crash when the window resized but is working very well now), very customizable and extensible using lua, just a joy to use. Before luakit, I used seamonkey (still do sometimes because I have so many bookmarks/logins saved in it that I can't be bothered to transfer), which I would recommend to anyone who doesn't like editing config files or is uncomfortable with keyboard-driven browsing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 13 2017, @09:45PM (1 child)
[I still use SeaMonkey] because I have so many bookmarks/logins saved in it that I can't be bothered to transfer
Your browser's bookmark manager doesn't have an Import tool?
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by t-3 on Monday August 14 2017, @04:11AM
I'm pretty sure there's a relatively pain-free way to transfer bookmarks (copying a file, maybe changing the formatting IIRC), I've just never bothered with it. I jusr don't use them often enough to make it a big enough deal to take care of, and for the stuff that I do use often luakit's quickmarks are much more convenient (basically assigning a hotkey to a page, all you do is type the quickmark-leader 'go'+$hotkey).