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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: 2) by Reziac on Thursday August 23 2018, @09:17AM
My primary browser is SeaMonkey (Palemoon as a backup), solely because of the interface. I want normal damned menus, not a fucking cellphone interface. When FF switched, I stopped installing it on new builds at all, even as a backup. If Palemoon's traditional interface vanishes -- well, the day comes when I won't install it anymore either.
Much as I loathe Chrome, FF is now a worse experience. In fact with the latest FF, which came along with whatever linux distro I was looking at, I couldn't figure out how to do some fairly basic shit (don't recall what) and promptly fled to the provided Chrome.
BTW, here's a guy who is doing XP and Win2K compatible builds of Palemoon (which dropped XP support as of v26.something) and KMeleon-Gecko:
http://rtfreesoft.blogspot.com/2018/08/weekly-browser-binaries-20180818.html [blogspot.com]
http://rtfreesoft.blogspot.com/2018/07/new-build-of-browsers-for-win2000.html [blogspot.com]
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.