Firefox 57.0 Released

Re:Firefox 57.0 Released by ajdlinux on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @06:25PM (#15700251)

There won't be a bypass - Fx57 has completely dropped legacy extension support.

This is a good thing, and it's just a shame that so many addons haven't been updated yet.

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Re:Firefox 57.0 Released by ywain on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @06:55PM (#15700391)

This isn't quite true. Support for legacy extensions is disabled by default, but can be re-enabled via the `extensions.legacy.enabled` flag in about:config.

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Re:Firefox 57.0 Released by rebelwebmaster on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @09:47PM (#15701118)

Don't expect it to work very well, though, given that a lot of the supporting code for legacy addons was already removed from Gecko 57.

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Re:Firefox 57.0 Released by ajdlinux on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @08:33PM (#15700847)

Huh, thanks for mentioning that! I didn't realise there was still a flag for it - serves me right for not doing my research.

Though losing Electrolysis will defeat one of the main benefits of running Firefox 57...

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Re:Firefox 57.0 Released by scholia on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @06:58PM (#15700407)

Though you lose multi-process operation, I think....

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Re:Firefox 57.0 Released by branchless on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @10:41PM (#15701286)

only on incompatible MP plugins.

however I've just ran nightly and although it says vimfx will work as a legacy plugin it's not working, so the deal's off. I shall not use my mouse!

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Re:Firefox 57.0 Released by mercurial on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @12:16AM (#15701623)

You can try vimium-ff (FF 57-compatible). There is also Tridactyl [1] currently in development.

1: https://github.com/cmcaine/tridactyl

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Re:Firefox 57.0 Released by WCityMike on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @08:53PM (#15700905)

Only in Nightly.

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