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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, Interesting) by DarkMorph on Saturday August 22 2015, @04:27PM

    by DarkMorph (674) on Saturday August 22 2015, @04:27PM (#226295)
    Many extensions are cross-compatible with Firefox and Seamonkey. Is this plan exclusive to Firefox, which would suggest all extensions that currently work with Seamonkey will continue to do so? Honestly I'm not sure how separate the development paths are for those two browsers. It was an idea years ago, probably around the time Firefox 3 rolled around, where we first saw clearly that the original purpose of the browser began to deviate and "bloat". The original goal was to spinoff the Mozilla suite and make a lightweight faster browser-only application. As far as I know Seamonkey continues the original Mozilla legacy, and it might be yet another time to consider going back to building Seamonkey with all the extras disabled at build time so it's just a browser.

    As many others have said, a major reason to use FF is because of some extensions like NoScript...
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  • (Score: 2) by Reziac on Monday August 24 2015, @05:20AM

    by Reziac (2489) on Monday August 24 2015, @05:20AM (#226872) Homepage

    By extras do you mean stuff like the mail client?

    Said mail client is one of the major reasons I use SeaMonkey. I do not wish to use Thunderbird or something else.

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