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:
On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 7:34 AM, Gerald B. Cox <gbcox@xxxxxx> wrote:
Here are some links which might be helpful:Changing the subject to reflect the actual discussion.Apparently many people are unaware of Mozilla's plan for Fx and webextensions:
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.org@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.
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Peter Oliver
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