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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: 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.