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Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake

posted by CoolHand on Saturday August 22 2015, @05:47AM   Printer-friendly
from the who-is-this-company-named-mozilla dept.

The Mighty Buzzard writes:

To the surprise of absolutely nobody who's been paying attention the past few years, Mozilla has announced that it will be deprecating all current extensions and have all future extensions be compatible with Chrome and Opera via the new WebExtensions API.

  • We are implementing a new extension API, called WebExtensions—largely compatible with the model used by Chrome and Opera—to make it easier to develop extensions across multiple browsers.
  • A safer, faster, multi-process version of Firefox is coming soon with Electrolysis; we need developers to ensure their Firefox add-ons will be compatible with it.
  • To ensure third-party extensions provide customization without sacrificing security, performance or exposing users to malware, we will require all extensions to be validated and signed by Mozilla starting in Firefox 41, which will be released on September 22nd 2015.
  • We have decided on an approximate timeline for the deprecation of XPCOM- and XUL-based add-ons.

Maybe now we can get a sustainable fork going?

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by basstard on Saturday August 22 2015, @07:01AM

    by basstard (5595) on Saturday August 22 2015, @07:01AM (#226174)
    I am using Pale Moon because of all those years that I've used FF. Perhaps the main reason for me is this. Same browser profiles since years ago with tons of cookie settings for various sites, it'd be annoying to click through "Allow for session" or "Deny" for all those sites again. Surely there are better ways to do this, but this is what I'm used to. Second reason being RequestPolicy not being available for any other alternative browser that I could consider using. If it is, please enlighten me by all means!
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  • (Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Saturday August 22 2015, @02:20PM

    by Nerdfest (80) on Saturday August 22 2015, @02:20PM (#226260)

    Try uMatrix for Chrome (and I think they actually have a FireFox version as well). Pretty similar, and more usable if I remember RequestPolicy correctly. You can also configure it via text based rules, block malware domains via imported hosts files, and a few other things.

  • (Score: 2, Informative) by drgibbon on Saturday August 22 2015, @03:28PM

    by drgibbon (74) on Saturday August 22 2015, @03:28PM (#226277) Journal

    I've found Policeman [mozilla.org] to be an improvement over RequestPolicy, and Self-Destructing Cookies [mozilla.org] is a whitelist cookie policy system. By default cookies are accepted but deleted after you close the tab (with a 10 second delay), but they can also be kept for the entire session (even if the site's tab closes), or set to be kept across sessions as they would normally be. Very handy.

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    • (Score: 2) by basstard on Saturday August 22 2015, @04:37PM

      by basstard (5595) on Saturday August 22 2015, @04:37PM (#226300)
      Self-Destructing Cookies seems very handy, as you say! Cheers!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2015, @10:02PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2015, @10:02PM (#226409)

    your searches? I've heard a lot of on-line masturbatory support for Pale Moon, but right there on their site, maybe the privacy policy or somewhere else, IIRC he states he profits somehow by your use of the browser.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 27 2015, @07:50AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 27 2015, @07:50AM (#228513)

      What does it do, specifically?