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: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday August 22 2018, @11:59PM (3 children)
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(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Thursday August 23 2018, @01:15AM (2 children)
Since I'm still an ESR hold-out and haven't flocked yet, what precisely do you mean by "gone the way of firefox"? Last I saw they were still busy trimming off useless and used-less features and generally making it a better browser?
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday August 24 2018, @11:10AM (1 child)
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(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Saturday August 25 2018, @12:03AM
Interesting. I must admit that one big reason I haven't switched to PM is that I don't trust them to make good decisions on what to cut. The fact that they ripped out the accessibility support raised a big red flag for me.