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0 pointskevincox8y ago0 comments

On nightly the extensions.legacy.enabled can be set to allow instalation of legacy extensions.

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jtgeibel8y ago· 2 in thread

> To assist with performance analysis leading up Firefox 57, in Nightly only we are turning off add-ons that require shims.

This was for pre-57 and doesn't apply to 57+.

That isn't true, I'm running 58.0a1 nightly with legacy add-ons enabled.

The point is that many APIs no longer work even though you can "enable" legacy addons. Pretty soon, this setting will be a no-op.

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