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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: 5, Interesting) by soylentnewsfan1 on Wednesday August 22 2018, @04:18AM (5 children)

    by soylentnewsfan1 (6684) on Wednesday August 22 2018, @04:18AM (#724548)
    The founder of Waterfox has already solved this by not only including and maintaining old extension support in their fork, but backed up the extensions for rolling out in their own add on store. And you can install the addons that required FF57 from mozzilla.They sent an email to Palemoon's author JustOff to share it also.

    Mr Alex says: [reddit.com]

    • All legacy extensions have been backed up :-)
    • I've dropped an email to JustOff with a link to the mirror
    • Am integrating into Waterfox
    • Will probably show Waterfox as version 57 on the AMO from now on.
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  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday August 22 2018, @05:38AM (4 children)

    by Bot (3902) on Wednesday August 22 2018, @05:38AM (#724564) Journal

    I also wonder if basilisk [basilisk-browser.org] and seamonkey [seamonkey-project.org] are BGTOW in this regard.

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    • (Score: 2) by PinkyGigglebrain on Wednesday August 22 2018, @03:01PM (3 children)

      by PinkyGigglebrain (4458) on Wednesday August 22 2018, @03:01PM (#724676)

      "BGTOW"?

      Never encountered that acronym before, and Google returned dozens of definitions.

      Care to take a moment and educate those like myself who have no clue what your talking about?

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      • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @03:51PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @03:51PM (#724705)

        Its not supposed to be human readable.

      • (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @04:23PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @04:23PM (#724713)

        Browsers going their own way?

        • (Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday August 25 2018, @07:09PM

          by Bot (3902) on Saturday August 25 2018, @07:09PM (#726309) Journal

          ^^^

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