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Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons

posted by chromas on Wednesday August 22 2018, @01:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the burn-the-bridges dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Mozilla plans to remove all legacy add-ons from their portal.

Support for Firefox ESR 52 will end on September 5, in two weeks, meaning there won't be any official Firefox version that supports legacy add-ons anymore.

Mozilla said today that following this date, it plans to start the process of disabling legacy add-on versions on its add-ons portal located at addons.mozilla.org (also known as the AMO).

"On September 6, 2018, submissions for new legacy add-on versions will be disabled," said Caitlin Neiman, Add-ons Community Manager at Mozilla.

"All legacy add-on versions will be disabled in early October, 2018. Once this happens, users will no longer be able to find [extensions] on AMO," she added.

Isn't modern FOSS great?/s

I can run old Blender if I need. Or go over all the archived .deb from past Debian releases. But Mozilla seems to be special. Time to call the Archive Team or the Wayback Machine.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @03:50AM (10 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @03:50AM (#724534)

    Palemoon is no longer being maintained. https://www.basilisk-browser.org/ [basilisk-browser.org] is the new direction.

    Basilisk is a free and Open Source XUL-based web browser, featuring the well-known Firefox-style interface and operation. It is based on the Goanna layout and rendering engine (a fork of Gecko) and builds on the Unified XUL Platform (UXP), which in turn is a fork of the Mozilla code base without Servo or Rust.

    Basilisk is primarily a reference application for development of the XUL platform it builds upon, and additionally a potential replacement for Firefox.

  • (Score: 4, Informative) by coolgopher on Wednesday August 22 2018, @04:15AM (4 children)

    by coolgopher (1157) on Wednesday August 22 2018, @04:15AM (#724544)

    Considering there was a Palemoon release last week, I wouldn't call it "no longer maintained". Or to use the vernacular on your comment - "citation needed" :P

    • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday August 22 2018, @11:59PM (3 children)

      by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Wednesday August 22 2018, @11:59PM (#724946) Homepage
      Pale Moon's gone the way of firefox though, it's only a matter of time. People are already attempting to leave Pale Moon as quickly as they flocked to it when they were driven away from firefox.
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      • (Score: 2) by coolgopher on Thursday August 23 2018, @01:15AM (2 children)

        by coolgopher (1157) on Thursday August 23 2018, @01:15AM (#724992)

        Since I'm still an ESR hold-out and haven't flocked yet, what precisely do you mean by "gone the way of firefox"? Last I saw they were still busy trimming off useless and used-less features and generally making it a better browser?

        • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday August 24 2018, @11:10AM (1 child)

          by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Friday August 24 2018, @11:10AM (#725739) Homepage
          One reason I moved from FF to PM was that FF removed the "always ask" cookie option, to much outcry. PM have just removed the "always ask" option, again to much outcry - this time with the argument "this is why I left FF for PM in the first place". That's just the most recent I remember, there have been others prior, and presumably since, but as I've now pinned an old version I have no idea what recent changes have occured.
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          • (Score: 2) by coolgopher on Saturday August 25 2018, @12:03AM

            by coolgopher (1157) on Saturday August 25 2018, @12:03AM (#726087)

            Interesting. I must admit that one big reason I haven't switched to PM is that I don't trust them to make good decisions on what to cut. The fact that they ripped out the accessibility support raised a big red flag for me.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @04:17AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @04:17AM (#724547)

    There was a major release less than a week ago:
    https://www.ghacks.net/2018/08/16/pale-moon-28-0-major-update-released/ [ghacks.net]

    Why are you lying?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @04:37AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @04:37AM (#724553)

    Palemoon is no longer being maintained.

    lolwut? If you want to point out an alternative to the stage four cancer patient in hospice that is Firefox, that's great. Just don't spread lies and bullshit about other alternatives. It's really not helping.

    https://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes.shtml [palemoon.org]

    v28.0.0 (2018-08-16)

    Looks maintained to me...

  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by janrinok on Wednesday August 22 2018, @06:39AM (1 child)

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday August 22 2018, @06:39AM (#724571) Journal

    Wrong, the Pale Moon team is also supporting Basilisk, but from the Basilisk home page:

    Basilisk is a free and Open Source XUL-based web browser, featuring the well-known Firefox-style interface and operation. It is based on the Goanna layout and rendering engine (a fork of Gecko) and builds on the Unified XUL Platform (UXP), which in turn is a fork of the Mozilla code base without Servo or Rust.

    Basilisk is primarily a reference application for development of the XUL platform it builds upon, and additionally a potential replacement for Firefox.

    Basilisk is development software. This means that it is more or less "beta" at all times; it may have some bugs and is provided as-is, with potential defects. Like any other Free Software community project, it comes without any warranty or promise of fitness for any particular purpose. That being said: of course we will do our best to provide an as stable and secure browser as possible with every official release of Basilisk.

    The final quoted paragraph explains that it is 'beta', and we all know the community's views on 'Beta', don't we? It is currently for development purposes.

    Suggesting that people move to it is not a good idea.

    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @10:56AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @10:56AM (#724609)

      The final quoted paragraph explains that it is 'beta', and we all know the community's views on 'Beta', don't we?

      Fuck beta.

  • (Score: 2) by KritonK on Sunday August 26 2018, @12:12PM

    by KritonK (465) on Sunday August 26 2018, @12:12PM (#726518)

    Palemoon is no longer being maintained. https://www.basilisk-browser.org/ [basilisk-browser.org] is the new direction.

    This is a common misconception, based on the peculiarities of the Mozilla code, which is not the source code for a single application, but a platform for building various applications (Firefox, Thunderbird, etc.). The Pale Moon developers have forked the Mozilla 52 code, to create the "UXP platform". Two applications built using that platform are Basilisk, which is Firefox 52 with internal changes and little to no external changes other than rebranding, and the recently released Pale Moon 28, which looks just like the previous version, but internally is a completely different beast altogether. The two are distinct applications and none of the two is intended to replace the other. If you are a Pale Moon user, update to Pale Moon 28 and enjoy the latest and greatest; use Basilisk only if you want to help in the development of the UXP platform.