The new Firefox is codenamed Firefox Quantum. It depreciates older
methods and uses WebExtension for its addons. It is an extreme
change and it has been coming for 3 years with plenty of warning.
I've tried it briefly on Windows 10 by using Firefox Nightly. It does
radically improve performance. I switched back to current Firefox
planning to hold on the last 56 version until I could get a good set
of addons, either upgraded or replaced.
If you want to thoroughly delay this, you can use Firefox Extended
Support Release, currently 52.5.0, either from your package manager,
your distro release, or from Mozilla.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/all/
You can get an idea of which of your addons are non-legacy and already
upgraded to Firefox Quantum by going to the Addons page:
about:addons
Any marked with a yellow "LEGACY" tag will be disabled under Firefox
57 and after.
Currently, these major addons are good for FF 57:
Ghostery
HTTPS Everywhere
Privacy Badger
Reddit Enhancement Suite
Social Fixer for Facebook
uBlock Origin
I'm waiting for a while to see if these critical addons upgrade or if
I can find a substitute.
DownThemAll!
Flagfox
Greasemonkey
NoRedirect
NoScript
RequestPolicy Continued
Tab Mix Plus
Mark Hewitt
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