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Maybe an example will make it clearer to you what #3 means. Firefox stops supporting certain types of extensions. Firefox stops making security patches to this
by minitech 9y ago
Maybe an example will make it clearer to you what #3 means. Firefox stops supporting certain types of extensions. Firefox stops making security patches to this (eventually) removed feature. Because there are no patches, you can’t backport them to your fork. From this, we have the objectively correct
> 3. You can’t backport patches for removed features
which is just as obvious as 2 – and they are important.
- superkuh 9y agoAh, I finally get what you're saying. You're complaining that forks will have to support code that Mozilla no longer does. Yeah. That's the point of forks.
- tialaramex 9y agoThey're not complaining, they are pointing out that this is a bunch of work that Palemoon's authors need to do, just to be no worse than Firefox. Work there isn't much evidence of them doing.