Msg: Re: Firefox add-on deprecation plan

Kari,

I will read through that article and all of the reader comments as soon as I get the chance. I hope there is some forum where everyday users can weigh in with their objections -- a place where the developers are hopefully paying some attention to this. Perhaps the site of that article is one. If you have access to development, perhaps you know of others ?

Jordan

From: Kari Eveli
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, August 21, 2015 10:54 PM
Subject: Firefox add-on deprecation plan

Hello Jordan,

This is a bit alarming. I am a Firefox user and a big fan of it, and have even been involved in FF add-on development by volunteering to translate some add-ons into Finnish. A prime example is Scrapbook that has proven indispensable for the way I use browsers. And AdBlock is a very good tool that I use.

More about the Firefox add-on deprecation plan:
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/08/21/the-future-of-developing-firefox-add-ons/

This is going to be a major upheaval, and who knows what the real outcome will be. There is always the possibility to use older versions. It is not that risky if you know what you are doing.

Best regards,

Kari Eveli
LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
lexitec@xxxxxxxx

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21.8.2015, 23:02, J R FOX wrote:

read the developer comment dated 8/21/15, about the impending demise of XUL based extensions. If this is accurate, it will truly sink the ship. AdBlock, NoScript, and a bunch of others that I depend upon will just be gone, drastically damaging the whole browsing experience. Unless there remain some forks of FF (ESR ? Pale Moon ? or _____ ?) that decide to stay the course, and decline to adopt these changes. But then there will be questions about continued development and security issues.