So I downloaded Nightly on a lark. 4 addons disabled, with a link to this page: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-add-technology-modernizing?as=u&ut

So I downloaded Nightly on a lark. 4 addons disabled, with a link to this page: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-add-technology-modernizing?as=u&utm_source=inproduct https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-add-technology-... >You can still personalize Firefox with add-ons the same way you do now, except they won’t break in new Firefox releases. This is a bald faced fucking lie. And I don't mean that in the "sorta misleading" sense, I mean that somebody wrote something that they knew was false and 'outta be slapped for it. 57 is getting pushed out the door with missing functionality, and that is an absolute fact. You absolutely "can not still personalize Firefox the same way you do now", because you're taking that away from everyone without having the replacements ready! I can sorta understand the reason to kill XUL/XPCOM, but what I can't understand is this desire to drop it on the world come November before all the bits are in place yet. Guys, Firefox isn't going to turn into a pumpkin if you let it cook for another few months. On another note, all companies have a resource that they may not be aware of. It's called "good will". Mozilla is burning prodigious amounts of theirs: * Between the CEO drama, * the UI rewrite that was apparently received so badly it's getting reverted 4 years later * the forced addon signing, * the telemetry dark patterns, * the forced addon breakage... * the junk like Pocket, Hello, and VR APIs recieving nontrivial amounts of developer attention while stuff people actually use like print preview and SSL is either ignored or have years old debilitating bugs Combined with the demonstrated "fuck you, we know better than you" attitude that permeated all of these decisions (I really think Mozilla and GNOME are going to wind up under the same umbrella at some point)... And what to show for it? Pissed off users, and an also-ran niche browser with almost no tangible competitive advantage (and in fact, a mounting number of disadvantages) I've got no faith in this company anymore. Eventually, there is going to be a "Mozilla foundation shutting down" topic at the top of this site, and the people making the decisions are going to be completely blindsided as to why.