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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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2015, @06:31PM
Mine, for example, are Ubiquity and TreeStyleTab. (...) When they stop working I'll check if Pale Moon plays nice with them, and if not, I'll probably just give up and use konqueror.
Don't know about Ubiquity, but Tree Style Tab works just fine in Pale Moon. I have 50 or so addons, only one of them didn't work in the newest PM: HTTPS Everywhere... So they forked it. Now it works as Encrypted Web.
You can check incompatibilities and workarounds for some addons on https://addons.palemoon.org/resources/incompatible/ [palemoon.org]
(Score: 3, Informative) by tangomargarine on Saturday August 22 2015, @07:37PM
I use TST in PM as well.
All my other core extensions: AdBlock, NoScript, RequestPolicy, GreaseMonkey, and FireGestures are supported :)
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by Marand on Sunday August 23 2015, @08:33PM
That's great to know, thanks. TST is probably the most immediate concern for me, since I absolutely hate the horizontal tabs that are default in every browser. Ubiquity is something I use often but can deal with not having short-term if there's a chance of getting support later.