There are also several alternatives for those who for whatever reason do not want to use the new Fx, and want to continue using the old extension system:
https://www.waterfoxproject.org/ http://www.palemoon.org/ https://www.seamonkey-project.org/ On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 7:34 AM, Gerald B. Cox <gb...@bzb.us> wrote: > Changing the subject to reflect the actual discussion. > > Apparently many people are unaware of Mozilla's plan for Fx and > webextensions: > > Here are some links which might be helpful: > > https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/08/21/the-future-of- > developing-firefox-add-ons/ > > https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2017/02/16/the-road-to- > firefox-57-compatibility-milestones/ > > https://arewewebextensionsyet.com/ > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 6:55 AM, Peter Oliver < > lists.fedoraproject....@mavit.org.uk> wrote: > >> On Fri, 13 Oct 2017, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: >> >> All the energy devoted to this thread would imho be better spent on >>> trying to encourage the authors of popular extensions to update to the >>> new model, >>> >> >> My understanding is that the new API lacks capabilities needed to make >> some extensions possible. Mozilla may or may not reimplement some of these >> functionalities in the future, but, for the time being, there’s little that >> the authors of such extensions can do. >> >> -- >> Peter Oliver >> _______________________________________________ >> devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org >> >> >
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