On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 1:33 AM, James Hogarth <james.hoga...@gmail.com>
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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