When will add-ons that work be available for Firefox v57
WHY won't Mozilla give advance notice to developers so that they can update their add-ons BEFORE the release of a new version? I LOATHE tabs, think they are for people with short attention spans, hate how they limit the amount of space on a page, and never use them. I can no longer hide tab bar when only one "tab" is in use, because the add-on no longer works, and there's no replacement.
Seriously: do you NOT know how an NDA works? Have them sign them, give them the betas, and DON'T release a version until the majority of the developers have updated their add-ons.
I have used Firefox since the early days of Netscape: Please don't force me to go to another browser...
Thanks,
..Joe
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Developers were given more than enough advance notice, more than 2 years notice to get their add-ons available as WebExtension. Most developers either stopped maintaining it, didn't care enough about it, or just didn't contact Mozilla to get the correct APIs in place if needed. Your hate for tabs aside, you can achieve a no-tab bar in Firefox 57 via the userChrome.css method. Link below on how to set it up.
Once done, paste this code into that file, save it, and restart Firefox. The top tab bar strip should be gone. I use this method so it is guaranteed to work.
#tabbrowser-tabs { visibility: collapse !important; }
joegerardi said
Seriously: do you NOT know how an NDA works? Have them sign them, give them the betas, and DON'T release a version until the majority of the developers have updated their add-ons.
The change from legacy Extensions to Web Extensions was known for a long time coming yet some authors chose to wait till last minute to make a web extension version or not to support with a web extension version for whatever reason.
Firefox is open source and not closed source so development channel builds are easily available for Testing.