[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Crap. I guess this means no more hacking the extension's .rdf files to raise the minimum version level so old extensions will work on newer versions.

I have about 40 extensions I use and without them, FF is useless to me. I may have to just dump it and move completely to Pale Moon.

[CedarDave]

Crap. I guess this means no more hacking the extension's .rdf files to raise the minimum version level so old extensions will work on newer versions.

I have about 40 extensions I use and without them, FF is useless to me. I may have to just dump it and move completely to Pale Moon.

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Yeah, hacking extension .rdf files won't work anymore. See the below link for add-ons that are ready for FF 57. You can do a search to see if any might replace what you will lose. There should be more in upcoming weeks. Unfortunately, mine (about a dozen) are still labeled legacy.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?tag=firefox57&page=

[snarkpup]

I have about 40 extensions I use and without them, FF is useless to me. I may have to just dump it and move completely to Pale Moon.

I am currently test-driving three other browsers as Firefox alternatives. I have started a "scoreboard" showing the current results on my FR homepage here:

freerepublic.com/~snarkpup/

I have been using Pale Moon as my secondary browser for some time; but, as shown on the scoreboard, it is already going to seed with respect to supporting even the current versions of "legacy" extensions; and I may abandon it shortly. Waterfox currently looks like the most viable over the intermediate term. Over the long term, both Pale Moon and Waterfox may cease to be viable if the implementers of the add-ons drop their support for the "legacy" system.

[CedarDave]

One more thing, there is a post from Aris-t2 regarding FF57 breaking Classic Theme Restorer. He lists hacks that can be used to restore some by using CSS code in the new Firefox. I’m not technical enough to follow the instructions so I’m going to FF 52 ESR version next week that will serve until things settle down next Spring.

https://github.com/Aris-t2/CustomCSSforFx/issues/1/