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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2015, @04:50PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2015, @04:50PM (#226304)

    They decided that they were done making a browser and needed instead to provide a comprehensive user experience that accorded with a set of philosophic goals grounded in sheer hipsterdom. The new FF experience will strive to anticipate all your decisions, for the set of decisions of which your privilege is still capable without further oppressing yourself and others. Hence no more of the old extensions, no reading list without third party spyware, no more control over your UI, lots of prefetching and predictive behavior. Because you deserve it.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 23 2015, @12:57AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 23 2015, @12:57AM (#226467)

    The same people who made netscape work on FF. Thats why.

    Netscape did the same thing.

    I agree it is maybe a bit 'premature' to say which way this will go. But given past history it is not looking good.

    A standard API is a good idea. But just 'too bad how sad' for all the existing plugins? Really? How to implode your identity in under a year.

    Now what is the diff between FF or Chrome? Not much.

    I will probably keep on using FF but thats just because the 2 plugins I use will probably be supported. There will be no reason to switch as there will be no difference. What reason do I have to switch or stay... Not much either way. Speed wise Chrome and FF are on par with each other. Memory is slightly better on FF.

    There is no reason to switch or stay... You are litterally making me not excited to recommend you. When people ask? I will tell them 'doesnt mater'.