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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 Ken_g6 on Sunday August 13 2017, @03:41PM (1 child)
When they killed Firebug I started looking at Chromium again. I finally found a user-friendly script blocker in ScriptSafe, and that was enough for me to switch. Plus Chromium is just faster. I still miss the FireFinder extension, though - typing in $$('[path]') at the console isn't quite the same.
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Wednesday August 16 2017, @05:46PM
I didn't know people still used Firebug. Seems like the built-in Firefox developer tools do all the same functions, don't they? Or has Firebug advanced significantly since I last used it? What do you need from Firebug that Firefox itself doesn't do?