[Mozilla Enterprise] Mozilla To Stop Supporting Sideloaded Extensions In Firefox

[Paul Kosinski]

Maybe "deployment" is easier in some sense, but the massive change
introduced by Quantum, which annihilated a large number of add-ons, has
made it impossible to return to Firefox's previous functionality and
usability (esp. the user interface). Thus the new state of affairs is
that, although it's easier to deploy this version of the browser, it
isn't the same browser.

P.S. I have been using the Firefox family pretty much exclusively since
I switched from Mosaic (DEC's OSF/1 Unix on Alpha) to Netscape about
24 years ago, but Quantum is by far the most disruptive change ever.
It's the first change that actually *removed* significant functionality
compared to the previous versions.


On Fri, 1 Nov 2019 08:26:25 -0500
Mike Kaply <mkaply at mozilla.com> wrote:

> This method was deprecated by Chrome years ago and we provide new and
> better methods via policy.
> 
> As it stands today, any extension installed by these mechanisms gets
> disabled anyway.
> 
> And we've actually made deployment easier with each release.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 8:18 AM Luca Olivetti <luca at wetron.es> wrote:
> 
> >
> > https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/11/01/0331216/mozilla-to-stop-supporting-sideloaded-extensions-in-firefox
> >
> >
> > Really?
> > If so, thank you (not!) for making deployment more difficult with
> > each release.
> >
> > Bye
> > --
> > Luca Olivetti
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