On 2018-05-04 at 12:22, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > On 04/05/18 17:42, W. Martin Borgert wrote: >> How will we deal with breaking extensions? >> >> E.g. I'm using xul-ext-scrapbook a lot. AFAIK, upstream does not >> provide a post-XUL version. Probably other extensions will face the >> same compatibility issue. >> >> Should we just remove them from stable? > > I guess so, yes. There's not much we can do if there is no support > for newer versions. Though please do take note of other applications which may still work with them. Even leaving other Mozilla-based browsers aside, ISTR there being (or having been?) some extensions which would work just fine in both Firefox and Thunderbird, and since Thunderbird is retaining XUL support - at least for now - there may be some value in retaining such "overlap" extensions for people who use them there. -- 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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