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.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Arik on Wednesday August 22 2018, @04:17AM (2 children)
I'm not sure how you determined that but it strikes me as dangerously wrong.
I'd suggest forking from 3.6.28 and then backporting anything of value that's been added since. Should take all of 3, 4 minutes.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 3, Touché) by shortscreen on Wednesday August 22 2018, @08:12AM
Can we do that for the whole www?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @03:39PM
I'm still running Version 52 ESR, 52.5.0 to be exact, seems to be stumbling along OK. When I check Help|About, it offers to update to 52.9.0, maybe I'll do that before 52 support ends.
A few times over the last years, composing/editing in Gmail has started to act a little erratic, and updating Firefox usually straightens things out.