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Old March 2nd 19, 09:45 PM posted to alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Bill in Co[_3_]
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Default The Firefox Add-On Extensions Problem

Firefox has dropped support for the older XUL add-on extensions in favor of
the new WebExtensions format, and has removed database access to the older
extensions, which is problematic for some of us, since so many of those were
useful and are NOT ported over to the new format required in the later
versions of Firefox.

My question is, where can you find and get the legacy XUL extensions now?

Apparently one individual took on the task to create a catalog site add on
extension for some of these, but it didn't work for me. But maybe that's an
issue at my end, since I'm now using Firefox Light for most stuff and
haven't tried it on the full blown version yet. Note: it requires adding an
extension that allegedly gives you access to a catalog of the older Firefox
extensions. I'm assuming this in itself is an XUL extension, so you may
not be able to use it on the newer Firefox builds - not sure.

Has anybody had any success in finding a nice archive of all the old XUL
format add on extensions for Firefox? (Again, this probably will only be
useful to those of you not using the latest versions of Firefox). But it
might be useful for Thunderbird, and some others.

Here are a couple of reference links for anyone interested.

https://www.trishtech.com/2018/10/us...d-ons-archive/

https://github.com/JustOff/ca-archive/releases


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Old March 2nd 19, 10:55 PM posted to alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Bill in Co[_3_]
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Default The Firefox Add-On Extensions Problem

Bill in Co wrote:
Firefox has dropped support for the older XUL add-on extensions in favor
of the new WebExtensions format, and has removed database access to the
older extensions, which is problematic for some of us, since so many of
those were useful and are NOT ported over to the new format required in
the later versions of Firefox.

My question is, where can you find and get the legacy XUL extensions now?

Apparently one individual took on the task to create a catalog site add on
extension for some of these, but it didn't work for me. But maybe that's
an issue at my end, since I'm now using Firefox Light for most stuff and
haven't tried it on the full blown version yet. Note: it requires adding
an extension that allegedly gives you access to a catalog of the older
Firefox extensions. I'm assuming this in itself is an XUL extension, so
you may not be able to use it on the newer Firefox builds - not sure.

Has anybody had any success in finding a nice archive of all the old XUL
format add on extensions for Firefox? (Again, this probably will only be
useful to those of you not using the latest versions of Firefox). But it
might be useful for Sea Monkey, Pale Moon, and some others.

Here are a couple of reference links for anyone interested.

https://www.trishtech.com/2018/10/us...d-ons-archive/

https://github.com/JustOff/ca-archive/releases


Ooops, looks like this works in Firefox, just not Firefox Light. Oh well,
it may be of interest to those using the older builds, or SeaMonkey or Pale
Moon or some other browsers that use the legacy XUL Firefox add ons.


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Old March 2nd 19, 11:15 PM posted to alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
PeterC
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Default The Firefox Add-On Extensions Problem

On Sat, 2 Mar 2019 13:45:03 -0700, Bill in Co wrote:

Firefox has dropped support for the older XUL add-on extensions in favor of
the new WebExtensions format, and has removed database access to the older
extensions, which is problematic for some of us, since so many of those were
useful and are NOT ported over to the new format required in the later
versions of Firefox.

My question is, where can you find and get the legacy XUL extensions now?

Apparently one individual took on the task to create a catalog site add on
extension for some of these, but it didn't work for me. But maybe that's an
issue at my end, since I'm now using Firefox Light for most stuff and
haven't tried it on the full blown version yet. Note: it requires adding an
extension that allegedly gives you access to a catalog of the older Firefox
extensions. I'm assuming this in itself is an XUL extension, so you may
not be able to use it on the newer Firefox builds - not sure.

Has anybody had any success in finding a nice archive of all the old XUL
format add on extensions for Firefox? (Again, this probably will only be
useful to those of you not using the latest versions of Firefox). But it
might be useful for Thunderbird, and some others.

Here are a couple of reference links for anyone interested.

https://www.trishtech.com/2018/10/us...d-ons-archive/

https://github.com/JustOff/ca-archive/releases


JustOff's CA archive is very good - I've a button to it in Pale Moon.

There's also PM's repository, just updated, of XUL extensions:
https://addons.palemoon.org/extensions/
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Old March 2nd 19, 11:21 PM posted to alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Mayayana
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Default The Firefox Add-On Extensions Problem

"Bill in Co" surly_curmudgeon@earthlink wrote

| Has anybody had any success in finding a nice archive of all the old XUL
| format add on extensions for Firefox?

I got curious and looked around for NoScript, as an
example. It's gone from the mozilla page. It's not on
their server. They don't seem to host those. But
the home website has a link:

https://noscript.net/getit

If I were you I'd look for other extensions you might
want and then back up copies. Even if you find an
archive it's not likely to last.


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Old March 2nd 19, 11:23 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Bill in Co[_3_]
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Default The Firefox Add-On Extensions Problem

PeterC wrote:
On Sat, 2 Mar 2019 13:45:03 -0700, Bill in Co wrote:

Firefox has dropped support for the older XUL add-on extensions in favor
of the new WebExtensions format, and has removed database access to the
older extensions, which is problematic for some of us, since so many of
those were useful and are NOT ported over to the new format required in
the later versions of Firefox.

My question is, where can you find and get the legacy XUL extensions now?

Apparently one individual took on the task to create a catalog site add
on extension for some of these, but it didn't work for me. But maybe
that's an issue at my end, since I'm now using Firefox Light for most
stuff and haven't tried it on the full blown version yet. Note: it
requires adding an extension that allegedly gives you access to a
catalog of the older Firefox extensions. I'm assuming this in itself
is an XUL extension, so you may not be able to use it on the newer
Firefox builds - not sure.

Has anybody had any success in finding a nice archive of all the old XUL
format add on extensions for Firefox? (Again, this probably will only be
useful to those of you not using the latest versions of Firefox). But it
might be useful for Sea Monkey, Pale Moon, and some others.

Here are a couple of reference links for anyone interested.

https://www.trishtech.com/2018/10/us...d-ons-archive/

https://github.com/JustOff/ca-archive/releases


JustOff's CA archive is very good - I've a button to it in Pale Moon.

There's also PM's repository, just updated, of XUL extensions:
https://addons.palemoon.org/extensions/


Good to know, thanks. And perhaps that repository might also work on
Firefox too, for that matter (or at least the older versions of Firefox)
But I'm using the New Moon fork of Pale Moon (for XP).


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Old March 2nd 19, 11:26 PM posted to alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Bill in Co[_3_]
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Default The Firefox Add-On Extensions Problem

Mayayana wrote:
"Bill in Co" surly_curmudgeon@earthlink wrote

Has anybody had any success in finding a nice archive of all the old XUL
format add on extensions for Firefox?


I got curious and looked around for NoScript, as an
example. It's gone from the mozilla page. It's not on
their server. They don't seem to host those. But
the home website has a link:

https://noscript.net/getit

If I were you I'd look for other extensions you might
want and then back up copies. Even if you find an
archive it's not likely to last.


I've got them backed up. I used the FEBE extension to simply do this. Go
check out the links I provided and you might find NoScript there.


 




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