Hawker wrote:
I have Adblock Plus 2.9.1 installed on Seamonkey. My subscriptions are
starting to say I need a newer version to work. I can't seem find a SM
compatible version of Adblock to download.
Is 2.9.1 (over 1 year old) the last version to work? Where can I find
newer versions?
I believe that 2.9.1 is the most recent version that will run in
Seamonkey, and I get the impression that that one isn't going to get any
more updates.
I know that I've also been running 2.9.1 in Thunderbird, and it works
fine in TB 52.x, but on the installation I have that I upgraded to
Thunderbird 60, Thunderbird disables it. In Thunderbird, I believe that
v60 is still 52.x code, but where essential updates are being backported
from Firefox ESR 60. Thus, Thunderbird still supports XUL extensions,
but for V60, extensions must be tweaked to allow for explicit support of
V60.
Realistically, until both Seamonkey and Thunderbird can finish the move
to WebExtensions, users of both are mostly going to limited to
extensions whose status is essentially frozen in time. There may be a
some developers who do stuff for Seamonkey or Thunderbird explicitly
that are continuing to update XUL extensions, but for extensions that
are primarily Firefox extensions, I think that most of the developers
are focusing only on what can be done in WebExtensions. They won't pull
the older XUL extensions (especially now that those are being hosted at
thunderbird.net, rather than addons.mozilla.org, but don't plan on any
additional updates. Adblock Plus is certainly not the only one, but
it's a good example.
Unfortunately, both Seamonkey and Thunderbird are still some way away
from transition to WebExtensions, and other architectural changes that
Firefox introduced with Quantum.
Smith
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