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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: 3, Informative) by Arik on Wednesday August 22 2018, @11:50AM (5 children)

    by Arik (4543) on Wednesday August 22 2018, @11:50AM (#724618) Journal
    No, they forked a much too recent version and insisted on porting the subsequent brain damage as well. Plus it's now abandonware.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @01:37PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @01:37PM (#724645)

    Plus it's now abandonware.

    [Citation Needed]

    As has been pointed out repeatedly above, it has NOT been abandoned. Stop spreading FUD.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @02:19PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @02:19PM (#724657)

      The developers had said they were moving to Basilisk, an Australis based fork, for new development. So did the future of palemoon change, or have they just finalized the release of the most recent dev branch?

      • (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @03:12PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @03:12PM (#724684)

        Stop trolling this thread.

        What does this have to do with Pale Moon?

        UXP will be the long-term future for Pale Moon. As such, we need something (an application) to develop this alongside our current browser platform and back-end. Eventually, Pale Moon will become a "UXP application", just like Basilisk is now. UXP applications retain full customization and freedom in application layout code, so the "look and feel" will not significantly change when Pale Moon is moved to the new platform (somewhere in 2018). Basilisk will allow us to develop and mature UXP so it'll be ready when we want to move over to it.

        https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=17384 [palemoon.org]

  • (Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @01:57PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @01:57PM (#724650)

    What is going on with that "I want attention" font of yours?

    Are you like, the red site version of creimer from the green site?

  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday August 23 2018, @12:42AM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Thursday August 23 2018, @12:42AM (#724969) Homepage Journal

    That is, the project openly stated that they wanted to develop libraries that other folks could use to create such applications as browsers and mail clients.

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