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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @04:17AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @04:17AM (#725065)

    Out of curiosity, what screen reader do you use? I know plenty of people that use IRC clients with screen readers. If I remember, I'll ask them what they use for both the reader and IRC client.

  • (Score: 1) by ShadowSystems on Thursday August 23 2018, @06:10PM (1 child)

    by ShadowSystems (6185) <ShadowSystemsNO@SPAMGmail.com> on Thursday August 23 2018, @06:10PM (#725317)

    Win7Pro64 & Jaws 16 from Freedom Scientific.
    Thank you! =-)

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @03:21AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @03:21AM (#725581)

      Ok, I asked a buddy of mine and he said that there are two main paths people take when on Windows. Now this is coming off my memory from talking to him, so it may not be completely accurate in paraphrase. The first is ChatZilla, an extension for Firefox. It plays nicer with JAWS and most other screen readers than most clients you will use. The problem is that some users are getting nervous because of the EOL of Firefox ESR 52, which not only kills ChatZilla but Quantum doesn't play as nicely with screen readers in some aspects. Another browser based one he did say that qWebIRC (and another one whose name he couldn't remember) can play nicely with JAWS, if the web interface uses that and the IRC admins properly set it up. However, that is not true of every web based one.

      Instead, he recommends the second option. He says you should try mIRC and one of the sub-options. First is that mIRC plays pretty nicely with JAWS out of the box. Second and the one he uses because he can see basic shapes, set JAWS to ignore mIRC completely and use its built-in reader, which allows him to still interact with mIRC and have it in the background reading things off while doing other things that don't require the screen reader and voice commands. Third, is to use JAWS as your registered speech component, to better integrate them. Fourth, is that there are plenty of FLOSS mIRC plugins (scripts?, addons? I'm not sure the lexicon) that allow it to play nicer with JAWS.

      Another suggestion he made was using IRSSI. Apparently the TUI plays nice with JAWS. The final note he gave was that it has been a few years since he searched and got his setup, so everything I told you could be wrong or out of date. There is probably some accessibility group somewhere with suggestions that he missed.