On 2017-10-20 at 15:46, Garreau, Alexandre wrote: > Maybe these extensions will be remade and repackaged with > web-extensions then (afaik it’s a good move, yet breaking all the old > apps forever is bad, they should re-integrate it after I while I’d > personally prefer). > > Waiting for this, XUL extensions I install through Debian on stable > are perfectly working (maybe if they, dunno, keep easy for distros > like debian to patch firefox in order to keep XUL support some time > that’d help?), so that’s probably for a too recent, or even future, > version that XUL doesn’t work anymore…
It will happen with Firefox 57, which I believe was just released, or ESR 59, which is due out along with Firefox 59 - in other words, if I'm not mistaken, probably in January. Past that point, your only options are: * Find (and/or make) an extension which does what you need in a way that is compatible with WebExtensions. In some cases - most prominently, anything that needs to modify the Firefox UI - this will not happen; the Mozilla developers explicitly do not want to support doing that. * Switch to one of the Firefox forks; Waterfox and Pale Moon are the two best-spoken-of that I know of, and of course there's always still Seamonkey (although that diverged far enough back that I'd be surprised if many modern pre-WebExtensions Firefox extensions were still compatible with it out-of-the-box). * Stick with ESR52, avoiding upgrades, until some better solution presents itself - however many years that takes. For myself, unless Debian decides to start packaging one of the forks which retains compatibility with the "long tail" of extensions, I will be taking option three. (At least three of the addons which I consider non-negotiably critical explicitly need to perform UI modification as part of the features for which I want them, and at least two of them are entirely unmaintained except by me.) -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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