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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: 3, Touché) by janrinok on Wednesday August 22 2018, @06:30AM (5 children)
Yes, but why should be have to? The internet is plenty big enough to hold the previous 'legacy' versions, so this seems to be nothing short of a petty move on the part of Mozilla.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @06:40AM (2 children)
Mozilla spent all their money on ... whatever ... and so has to cut back on their server storage.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Wednesday August 22 2018, @06:43AM
Hookers and blow is the traditional way for software ventures to get through lots of money. Just sayin'...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @09:44AM
Just a few ideas:
On giving their Apple buildfarm to another project (WTF?).
On pushing people in and out of quite important positions in their company, so...
On digging dirt of them all time which ends in courts, In consequence...
On barking back to a dog.
On HEURISTICS*! :)
On separating with Thunderbird.
This looks like famous method of transferring gains without taxes from developing countries. You take over the large company in a developing country, you run it, but cannot transfer profit outside without paying larger taxes, so you re-brand the company and buy from yourself a brand name, or technical means to do re-branding, for the money you want to transfer out.
* I tell you, I won't upgrade my Firefox 3.6 installation if it won't be ready!.
P.S. Archive Team, you have my VM.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @10:32AM
Because we've learned from Microsoft's forced upgrades from WinXP into Win7 and then from Win7 into Win10, that the best way to not have the old version out there in the wild is to remove anything surrounding it that is of value and that helps to keep it alive.
Everyone must upgrade, the borg say so, do not resist, you will be assimilated.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by tangomargarine on Wednesday August 22 2018, @08:15PM
Situations like this, I have to imagine the real reason to get rid of backwards-compatibility is so that people can't continue using the old stuff while calling the new stuff out as being the steaming pile of shit that it is.
I recall that when they rolled out Australis, the #1 most popular add-on that weekend was Classic Theme Restorer, i.e. "give me an add-on to get rid of all this new interface shit."
How embarrassing.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"