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posted by CoolHand on Saturday August 22 2015, @05:47AM   Printer-friendly
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: 5, Informative) by Magic Oddball on Saturday August 22 2015, @10:53AM

    by Magic Oddball (3847) on Saturday August 22 2015, @10:53AM (#226218) Journal

    No... When you click on a link, Pale Moon will take you to that page, downloading only the elements for that one specific page so you can see them. That's the traditional behavior, where the browser does what you tell it to and only what you tell it to.

    In contrast, he is saying PM does not do these things that some other browsers do:
    -- download a page/elements because you merely hover over a link.
    -- download a page at the link you clicked to visit, then also download all of the pages/graphics linked to it.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2015, @07:58PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2015, @07:58PM (#226369)

    From that same thread:

    Pale Moon doesn't connect on hover. It will make speculative TCP connections when actually navigating and that is what the pref applies to.

    My confusion is that if it is as you say, what is at all "speculative" about these TCP connections? If I click a link, there is no speculation going on. The browser should be getting whatever is at that link.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2015, @03:58AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2015, @03:58AM (#227389)

      The point is that Pale Moon is not speculative. Other browsers (perhaps unexpectedly) are.

      The point would probably be clearer by naming examples, but I could see why you wouldn't want to call anyone in particular out, as it would just be inviting trouble.