Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Firefox future

2017-04-25 Thread Paul Kosinski
So, a complete architectural overhaul of Firefox, coupled with a total rewrite of the browser engine, using a rather new programming language still undergoing lots of change and "stabilization". What could possibly go wrong? When Microsoft forces its users to migrate to a new version of Windows th

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Firefox future

2017-04-25 Thread The Wanderer
On 2017-04-24 at 16:01, Jorge Villalobos wrote: > On 4/24/17 1:01 PM, Paul Kosinski wrote: > >> I just installed Firefox ESR 52.1.0 to try it out and got a >> warning from Classic Theme Restorer that it will not work in ESR 59 >> et seq because the "XUL / XPCOM / legacy addon" support is being >>

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Firefox future

2017-04-24 Thread Jorge Villalobos
It's inherently impossible for CTR to work as an add-on past 57. Here are some posts with information on our plans: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2017/02/16/the-road-to-firefox-57-compatibility-milestones/ https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2016/11/23/add-ons-in-2017/ Jorge On 4/24/17 1:01 PM, Pa

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Firefox future

2017-04-24 Thread Stephanie Daugherty
Firefox is undergoing a gradual overhaul of its entire architecture that will bring dramatic performance, stability, and security improvements. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Quantum During this process, Mozilla's work on the Rust language and technologies being developed presently under the Servo engin

[Mozilla Enterprise] Firefox future

2017-04-24 Thread Paul Kosinski
I just installed Firefox ESR 52.1.0 to try it out and got a warning from Classic Theme Restorer that it will not work in ESR 59 et seq because the "XUL / XPCOM / legacy addon" support is being removed in 57. This would be a disaster from our point of view as the Classic Theme is the only way Firef