So, a complete architectural overhaul of Firefox, coupled with a total rewrite of the browser engine, using a rather new programming language still undergoing lots of change and "stabilization". What could possibly go wrong?
When Microsoft forces its users to migrate to a new version of Windows they like less, they have little choice. If Firefox turns into a buggy clone of Chrome, guess what. On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 08:16:20 -0400 The Wanderer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2017-04-24 at 16:01, Jorge Villalobos wrote: > > > On 4/24/17 1:01 PM, Paul Kosinski wrote: > > > >> I just installed Firefox ESR 52.1.0 to try it out and got a > >> warning from Classic Theme Restorer that it will not work in ESR 59 > >> et seq because the "XUL / XPCOM / legacy addon" support is being > >> removed in 57. > >> > >> This would be a disaster from our point of view as the Classic > >> Theme is the only way Firefox has a decent UI. (If we wanted > >> Chrome, we'd use Chrome.) > >> > >> Does the removal of this support make the Classic Theme inherently > >> impossible, or "just" a major new programming effort to update the > >> CTR addon? > > > > It's inherently impossible for CTR to work as an add-on past 57. > > Here are some posts with information on our plans: > > > > https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2017/02/16/the-road-to-firefox-57-compatibility-milestones/ > > https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2016/11/23/add-ons-in-2017/ > > See also > > https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/dev-addons/2017-March/002675.html > > for explicit confirmation that they explicitly do not want to make it > possible to do this sort of UI customization anymore. > > This is going to lose them users, and quite possibly put at least some > of those users into a less secure situation (because those users stick > with older, non-updated Firefox releases) - but the decision has > apparently been made that the benefit, in maintainability and the > opening up of future development paths, is worth that trade-off. > _______________________________________________ Enterprise mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise To unsubscribe from this list, please visit https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise or send an email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe"
