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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: 3, Interesting) by Freeman on Wednesday August 22 2018, @03:24PM (3 children)

    by Freeman (732) on Wednesday August 22 2018, @03:24PM (#724687) Journal

    Or you can do what I do. Use whatever works. I can't tell you how much crud I have backed up over the years, that I never touched again. Except to look at occasionally and delete or think, man I should get rid of some of that junk. The only things I care about backing up anymore are things I've created, my games, or my music/video. I don't have much in the way of music/video, either. I like a movie enough, I get a DVD, Blu-Ray, or DVD/Blu-Ray combo pack. A Really Old Piece of Software from the 1990s, No one cares about, you don't care about it, I don't care about it, and certainly the company doesn't care about it anymore. Yes, it's interesting to see what Linux from the 90s looks like, but no one in their right mind would use it. Sure, there could be some random use case for some things. In general, though, you'd be a lot happier, if you just don't care about old junk software. Is there something else that could replace? Great! Use that. There isn't? Is it worth it to create a replacement for it? Probably not. Otherwise, there would probably be some solution.

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @05:12PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @05:12PM (#724743)

    The problem is there isn't always something that works. I've lost some old add-ons that have been discontinued, and I can't find anything equivalent. The old Cookie Monster add-on for cookie control, for instance. Yes, there are a lot of cookie add-ons, but none of them offer the same level of granularity and simplicity. Even the closest options have horrible UIs and don't fill the same requirements.

    Sometimes new just means less useful.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @05:50PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @05:50PM (#724767)

      > Sometimes new just means less useful.

      Usually new just means less useful.
      FTFY...at least for the case of consumer-type software.

  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday August 23 2018, @12:50AM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Thursday August 23 2018, @12:50AM (#724975) Homepage Journal

    For me personally it's so I can support my clients' software on old OS builds.

    It's uncommon for my clients to so much as request that. I do it anyway because I feel very strongly that no one should have to buy a new box just to run my code.

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