If an extension updates to a WebExtension, users will automatically get that update.
If the author or another author creates an alternative then a user will have to find that. The recommendations are being populated and other changes are being made. For example, on September 1st only WebExtensions will be featured on AMO (as opposed to extensions that expect to upgrade). The recommendation tool on AMO is being populated with add-ons any suggestions welcome as per the thread here: https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/favorite-webextensions/17087. We are specifically and consciously focusing on release here and giving the extension developers time to upgrade their extensions. On 14 August 2017 at 13:16, Honza Bambas <hbam...@mozilla.com> wrote: > On 8/13/17 6:42 PM, Ed Morley wrote: >> >> For the short term, Nightly users therefore have the following options: >> a) Use latest nightly with legacy extensions disabled, and make do without >> their extensions. > > > There is also a2): find webext based alternatives "by hand" (what I have > done and intend to help those addon developers to improve before 57 goes to > release). Note that in both cases (only two addons I really need to work - > the rest is RIP now) are coming from *different* developers than the > original xpcom-addons authors are. > > And here is my question: do we have a story for how to automatically updated > addons of RELEASE channel users going from 56 to 57? Given how we are gonna > market 57, it would be sad that people after updating loose all their > addons. It will be just frustrating and ruin the main goal of 57 effort. > > Ed already mentioned that the addons manager doesn't automatically suggest > or even update to webext alternatives. We really should have something like > this SOON - the more automatic or fluent the better. > > -hb- > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
