On Mon, Aug 07, 2017 at 10:58:11PM -0400, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
On 8/7/17 6:17 PM, Nicholas Nethercote wrote:
Is there going to be a clear point in time when legacy extensions stop
working in Nightly?
I was under the impression that there is, and I strongly feel there
should be.
There isn't. Not as such, anyway. By the end of the week, legacy
extensions that aren't specially signed will be disabled by
default. On nightlies and in unbranded builds, it will still be
possible to enable them by flipping a pref, but they will be
completely unsupported.
Yes, that means that some users and developers will continue to
use them, and continue to get upset when they break, but that's
what they're signing up for when they flip the preference. I
tend to compare this to the rooted Android ecosystem. People who
develop for that environment know that they have no official
support, and their apps are never going to reach a broad user
base.. People who setup that environment know that things are
going to be unstable, and apps are going to break. But for one
reason or another, it's worth it to them.
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