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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @06:11AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @06:11AM (#725087)

    That's why we stuck with slackware (and some of us swtiched to Debian till pottering the scum screwed shit up).

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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday August 23 2018, @07:05PM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Thursday August 23 2018, @07:05PM (#725350) Homepage Journal

    It was because of the cruelty that all the SlackWare Neckbeards showed toward newbies in the Slackware newsgroup.

    My experience with Debian was that it was generally hospitable to newbies. Why did I bail on Debian?

    Because Debian Is The Self-Righteous Distro.(R)

    What did I prefer to Debian?

    Ubuntu. Hilarity Ensued.

    Now I'm using Linux Mint Cinnamon. One box has 17, the other 17.1. While I know I would do well to dist-upgrade I like 17.1 and 17 so much that I don't really feel the need. I do from time to time "$ apt-get update" then "$ apt-get upgrade", but I'm reluctant to dist-upgrade unless I know there's a real good reason.

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    Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]