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The legacy API is not on nightly. I think they have a similar API in WebExtension Experiments, but in nightly, legacy add-ons do not work.
by pitaj 9y ago
The legacy API is not on nightly. I think they have a similar API in WebExtension Experiments, but in nightly, legacy add-ons do not work.
- kevincox 9y agohttps://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Firefox57 https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Firefox57 On nightly the extensions.legacy.enabled can be set to allow instalation of legacy extensions.
- jtgeibel 9y ago> To assist with performance analysis leading up Firefox 57, in Nightly only we are turning off add-ons that require shims. This was for pre-57 and doesn't apply to 57+.
- andrewshadura 9y agoThat isn't true, I'm running 58.0a1 nightly with legacy add-ons enabled.
- fbender 9y agoThe point is that many APIs no longer work even though you can "enable" legacy addons. Pretty soon, this setting will be a no-op.