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: 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.