2017-08-24 0:00 GMT+02:00 Andrew McKay <amc...@mozilla.com>: > If an extension updates to a WebExtension, users will automatically > get that update. > > If the author or another author creates an alternative then a user > will have to find that. > > The recommendations are being populated and other changes are being > made. For example, on September 1st only WebExtensions will be > featured on AMO (as opposed to extensions that expect to upgrade).
Does that mean that AMO won't show nor have data for any legacy addon? > The > recommendation tool on AMO is being populated with add-ons any > suggestions welcome as per the thread here: > https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/favorite-webextensions/17087. > > We are specifically and consciously focusing on release here and > giving the extension developers time to upgrade their extensions. > > On 14 August 2017 at 13:16, Honza Bambas <hbam...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > On 8/13/17 6:42 PM, Ed Morley wrote: > >> > >> For the short term, Nightly users therefore have the following options: > >> a) Use latest nightly with legacy extensions disabled, and make do > without > >> their extensions. > > > > > > There is also a2): find webext based alternatives "by hand" (what I have > > done and intend to help those addon developers to improve before 57 goes > to > > release). Note that in both cases (only two addons I really need to > work - > > the rest is RIP now) are coming from *different* developers than the > > original xpcom-addons authors are. > > > > And here is my question: do we have a story for how to automatically > updated > > addons of RELEASE channel users going from 56 to 57? Given how we are > gonna > > market 57, it would be sad that people after updating loose all their > > addons. It will be just frustrating and ruin the main goal of 57 effort. > > > > Ed already mentioned that the addons manager doesn't automatically > suggest > > or even update to webext alternatives. We really should have something > like > > this SOON - the more automatic or fluent the better. > > > > -hb- > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > dev-platform mailing list > > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
