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no technical reason why none of the other add-ons are allowed any more, it being merely a policy decision. I already verified that my add-ons can still run on F
by causality0 6y ago
no technical reason why none of the other add-ons are allowed any more, it being merely a policy decision. I already verified that my add-ons can still run on Firefox for Android but aren’t allowed to
That makes me almost incoherently furious. I understand if you rebuild the foundation of a browser for better performance and that breaks all the extensions until the developers can rewrite them for the new model. I get it if one of my favorite extensions is no longer under active development and will never have a version released for the new model. But how fucking dare you gatekeep what I install on my own browser? Freedom from this walled-garden bullshit is the only reason I run Firefox instead of Chrome. Google's twice as good at UI as you. They're faster, look better, and miraculously I never have to swipe five times trying to dismiss a Chrome tab.
I get that Mozilla is drowning, flailing around trying to create a future where they aren't irrelevant. This is just ugly, though.
- palant 6y agoAccording to some Mozilla people, this part is actually wrong and extension support is indeed not implemented completely. It's merely that I couldn't (and still cannot) find a list of outstanding issues, and everything I tried worked correctly.
- causality0 6y agoI wouldn't put it past them to just be straight-up lying.
- palant 6y agoThey don't. Mozilla at this stage is still a very idealistically motivated organization. Most people are trying hard to do the right thing. It's merely that real-life constrains often lead to rather suboptimal results, despite all the good intentions.
- causality0 6y agoThey do lie. Mozilla claimed Quantum was fundamentally incompatible with XUL extensions, despite the fact people could simply build their own Firefox Quantum from source with XUL support turned back on.