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On 8/24/17 2:08 AM, Andrew Swan wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 12:03 AM, Alessio Placitelli <
> aplacite...@mozilla.com> wrote:
>
>> 2017-08-24 0:00 GMT+02:00 Andrew McKay :
>>> The recommendations are being populated and other changes are being
>>> made. For example, on September 1st only WebEx
On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 12:03 AM, Alessio Placitelli <
aplacite...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> 2017-08-24 0:00 GMT+02:00 Andrew McKay :
> > The recommendations are being populated and other changes are being
> > made. For example, on September 1st only WebExtensions will be
> > featured on AMO (as oppos
2017-08-24 0:00 GMT+02:00 Andrew McKay :
> 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
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 WebExtension
For those interested, preliminary data shows a continuing increase in the
Nightly population since 57. The number of users using Nightly 57 on August
17 was the highest number of users on any day on any Nightly version
since... well, our data retention policy cuts out at 6 months, so since at
least
On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 6:16 AM, Honza Bambas wrote:
> 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.
There is a "find a replacement"
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
This is not a specific solution for Nightly users, but I thought that it should
generally known that we are working on a solution for when the same problem
occurs with Release channel users.
The TAAR (telemetry aware addon recommendation) project will use legacy addon
information to prioritize
Don't do (c) -- its pointless. You won't be helping us test nightly changes
and will miss any important fixes (especially security ones). Go ahead and
switch to beta if you have to. Your extensions will work, you'll be helping
us ship a good 56, and you'll get security fixes. Hate to lose nightly
t
Some context:
- As part of Firefox 57 no longer supporting legacy (non web extension)
add-ons, the `extensions.legacy.enabled` preference was flipped to false in
the Aug 11th Nightly build [1].
- Several backwards incompatible changes have already been made to Nightly
that can break legacy extensio
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