Re: Fx 57 Release Issues

[Gerald B. Cox]

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  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
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Fx 57 Release Issues

[Gerald B. Cox]

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  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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