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on Saturday August 22 2015, @05:47AM
from the who-is-this-company-named-mozilla dept.
from the who-is-this-company-named-mozilla dept.
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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Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by wonkey_monkey on Saturday August 22 2015, @07:55AM
Mozilla Thinks You Should Eat Cake
Is this another horrendously strained metaphor?
"Let them eat cake" expresses a contemptuous attitude from those in power (and possibly ignorance) when something is demanded of them. Well, nothing's being demanded of Mozilla. They're taking away the cake and replacing it (for free) with what some people view as an inferior kind of cake.
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In any case, headlines should at least give some sense of what the story is about without reading the summary. This one fails spectacularly, with the added problem that it doesn't make sense after reading the summary.
Also, the cake is a lie.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Zz9zZ on Saturday August 22 2015, @08:20AM
I modded you insightful, because you are completely accurate. However, I wish there was a mod for "pedantic". While the metaphor doesn't track 100%, it fits well enough. The new system is cross compatible (fancy new cake) and the addon community is being forced to eat it. Their contempt is readily given: We have decided on an approximate timeline for the deprecation of XPCOM- and XUL-based add-ons.
It would be easy enough to provide a "click to enable support for older addons" while improving the security to keep addons from getting installed without direct user approval. Perhaps not trivially easy, but supporting the community is supposedly one of Mozilla's big draws...
~Tilting at windmills~
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2015, @10:43AM
I thought it was a joke about 'having your cake and eating it too' but you're right that it's a bad headline.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2015, @11:02PM
I actually thought it was a Portal reference.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Refugee from beyond on Saturday August 22 2015, @12:03PM
Cake is just an euphemism for something less pleasant.
Instantly better soylentnews: replace background on article and comment titles with #973131.
(Score: 2) by VortexCortex on Sunday August 23 2015, @04:18AM
Lest ye forget: The Cake is a Lie.