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Re: Firefox 60esr on Stretch ?



 ❦  4 mai 2018 23:22 +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> :

>> Why? We have now a huge breakage for all XUL extensions, but
>> were there problems of a similar scale before? Do we have to
>> expect similar breakages in the future with the new API?
>
> Sure, plenty of addons needed updates to remain compatible
> with later Firefox (ESR) releases in the past. This model
> is broken for many years already, totally independant of
> the switch to web extensions.

WebExtensions are backed by a standard draft:
https://browserext.github.io/browserext/. So, situation is expected to
improve in the future.
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