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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: 4, Interesting) by tangomargarine on Wednesday August 22 2018, @08:15PM
Situations like this, I have to imagine the real reason to get rid of backwards-compatibility is so that people can't continue using the old stuff while calling the new stuff out as being the steaming pile of shit that it is.
I recall that when they rolled out Australis, the #1 most popular add-on that weekend was Classic Theme Restorer, i.e. "give me an add-on to get rid of all this new interface shit."
How embarrassing.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"