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CoolHand
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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(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2015, @08:52AM
I'm sorry but you are completely off-base.
DNS Pre-fetching does not happen when you hover over a link, it happens when the page is loaded [blogspot.com] - by default firefox (and palemoon) do DNS prefetching on ALL href anchors in the document.
You've confused speculative connections (see the subject line of this thread) with DNS pre-fetching. Speculative connections are where the browser sets up the TCP connection (but does not do any HTTP protocol transactions) when it thinks you might be about to make a HTTP connection. There was some bad reporting last week that suggested firefox does speculative connections every time you hover over a link. That turned out to be false. [soylentnews.org] It only happens in very narrow circumstances.