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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: 2) by Alfred on Wednesday August 22 2018, @04:05PM (3 children)

    by Alfred (4006) on Wednesday August 22 2018, @04:05PM (#724711) Journal
    Does anyone find it somewhat ironic that the only thing slowing a computer (at least in my case) to the point i think it is slow and needs to be replaced is the web going slow? But we are a consumption based society and the web is for consuming en mass. I could have a 10 year old computer that can speedily edit photos with the software of the day but if it tries to render modern websites then it is a slug. There is not a site I can't live without so they can suffer while I still have a useful computer.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @04:52PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @04:52PM (#724729)

    try linux. networking comes from its core :)

  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday August 23 2018, @08:40PM (1 child)

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Thursday August 23 2018, @08:40PM (#725395) Homepage
    Turn off all the modern switches. View the web as it was when it was envisioned by Berners-lee. Just the facts, none of the fluff. Sure I misse dout on something i can't even describe because I didn't see it the other day, but at least all my other webpage loads are lightning fast.
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    Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @08:24PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @08:24PM (#726004)

      Yup this - with JS off, refcontrol running, adblocking, I see a web as fast as 2005-2008. Slower than 1999-2002, there's still a lot of images and very few all-text pages rendered with inline tables (instead of pulling multiple files), but way better than unprotected internet activity right now. Whenever I have to use someone else's browser, I feel like it's the early scene in the old blade runner, when the whole world is flashing at you and trying to get your, /your/ attention, right now please this is important over here beep beep buy our tacos!

      Oh, to have text-and-tables back, and images considered large at > 10kB jpg...