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, @03:39PM
I'm still running Version 52 ESR, 52.5.0 to be exact, seems to be stumbling along OK. When I check Help|About, it offers to update to 52.9.0, maybe I'll do that before 52 support ends.
A few times over the last years, composing/editing in Gmail has started to act a little erratic, and updating Firefox usually straightens things out.