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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: 1) by Francis on Saturday August 22 2015, @05:27PM

    by Francis (5544) on Saturday August 22 2015, @05:27PM (#226313)

    Or you open a dictionary and look the word speculatively up. It means in a speculative manner or in a predictive fashion. I'm not really sure what's so hard to understand about that. Some browsers will hit up every link of a page in case you choose to click that link. I don't think it's a good practice and probably leaves you open to all sorts of security problems.

  • (Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2015, @06:10PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2015, @06:10PM (#226328)

    Some browsers will hit up every link of a page in case you choose to click that link.

    Yes, and from Moonchild's quote I believe that Pale Moon does this for some reason (I imagine some kind of speed issue). I would like to turn that feature off if so.