On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 1:33 AM, James Hogarth <[email protected]> wrote:
> > And even if we hypothetically forked Firefox (as that is what it would be) > to add legacy extension capability back it would mark a significant > divergence with upstream and I'm not sure if addons.mozilla.org could > even be used then anyway as it'd detect FF57 and state that older > extensions are not supported. That doesn't even go into the legal situation > as to whether we could even call it Firefox with such divergence (remember > Iceweasel?) ... there's a reason there's a whitelist on the Firefox > packages for build permissions after all. > > And how long would you want FF packagers to maintain such a patchset for? > Even the next ESR will drop legacy extensions. > > > Yup! It's a non-starter. Mozilla knows exactly what they are doing - and have made their decision. https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2017/04/05/compatibility-firefox-54/#comment-223852
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