Mozilla to Remove Legacy Firefox Add-Ons From Add-On Portal in Early October (bleepingcomputer.com)

Mozilla announced today plans to remove all Firefox legacy add-ons from the official Mozilla add-ons portal in early October. From a report: The move comes after Mozilla updated the Firefox core to use a new add-ons system based on the Chrome-compatible WebExtensions API. This new add-ons API replaced Firefox's old XUL-based add-ons API in November 2017, with the release of Firefox 57. All Firefox legacy add-ons stopped working in Firefox 57, but Mozilla continued to support them in the Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) 52 branch. Support for Firefox ESR 52 will end on September 5, in two weeks, meaning there won't be any official Firefox version that supports legacy add-ons anymore.

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Nails in the coffin

[sinij]

At this point they are just hammering additional nails into Firefox's coffin.

Re:That's OK; techies to remove new Firefox

[Anonymous Coward]

Unfortunately, the harder they push, the more backlash there will be and people just go "Fuck it. I'll just use Pale Moon, etc." where their extensions continue to work.

Guess it is just another sign of Mozilla continuing to jump the shark / nuke the fridge / etc. on slowly becoming irrelevant and losing touch with what people want in a browser.

The people running Mozilla completely lost their minds a few years ago and it's been nothing but a constant stream of "Fuck You" to users. Somehow, Firefox dropping to single digit market share hasn't been enough to convince them that butchering Firefox is a bad idea.

Instead, they seem to suffer from some sort of bizarre mental illness where the more people reject Firefox the more determined they become to fuck it up and make it useless and irrelevant.

So glad I switched to Palemoon a couple of years ago.