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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: 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    Considering there was a Palemoon release last week, I wouldn't call it "no longer maintained".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

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  • (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.