4 ms·
There were legacy extensions delivered outside the app store. Those are deprecated and with Safari 13 were removed. There are other extensions delivered throug
by mfer 7y ago
There were legacy extensions delivered outside the app store. Those are deprecated and with Safari 13 were removed.
There are other extensions delivered through the App Store you can install. For example, there is a uBlock extension there.
- fnordsensei 7y agoWhat could be driving that, I wonder? Are they concerned with malware? Regardless, it seems like a big thing to omit from the notes.
- janfoeh 7y agoIf I were to guess, probably performance and battery life. They emphasized efficiency when they introduced their own compiled blacklist API for content blockers.
- mfer 7y ago> Removed support for Legacy Safari Extensions. It was in the notes. That's the line.
- olliej 7y agoAt a guess: Engineering overhead of two separate extension models, the "real extension" model can't do the kind of cross process communication a lot of extensions really need (password managers, etc). Then performance problems of extensions injecting and running a pile of JS into all pages. But yeah, I am not looking forward to losing ublock. I (Safari fanboy) will probably delay updating as long as possible.
- bangonkeyboard 7y agoThe "uBlock" app extension in the store has nothing to do with uBlock Origin. Do not install it.