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

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: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday August 22 2018, @05:37AM (1 child)

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Wednesday August 22 2018, @05:37AM (#724563) Journal

    Did you try Waterfox? (Honest question; I don't have any idea about if it would work.)

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  • (Score: 1) by ShadowSystems on Wednesday August 22 2018, @03:08PM

    by ShadowSystems (6185) <ShadowSystemsNO@SPAMGmail.com> on Wednesday August 22 2018, @03:08PM (#724680)

    No, I haven't tried WaterFox yet. I shall go search for it now & give it a try. Thank you for the pointer.