Anything I can do with my extensions to be ready for FF57

[GLint]

I'm starting to worry about the upcoming change to extensions in FF57.

Is there anything I can do now which will make things easier once I've updated to FF57?

Thanks

[allande]

Backup your profile, you could then use it along with a Portable Firefox installation of an older Firefox for experimentation or to recover data. If you are using a password saving extension, export or write down your passwords. If you are using a session saver, restore all sessions and bookmark them using ctrl-shift-d to bookmark all tabs into a bookmark folder. Take a screenshot of the list of extensions you currently have, or print the about:support page, so you can remember the names of what they used to be.

Additionally, this spreadsheet may help find replacements for some extensions: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/commen ... cy_addons/
Also note that adblock plus and ublock origin have beta versions which are webextensions and will work.
The official replacement finder is here: https://mozilla.github.io/extension-finder/ It may improve, for now its results are marginal.

The sticky thread offering suggestions / explanation is here: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... &t=3033779

[c627627]

If your extensions don't work on Fx57, they will continue to work on Firefox ESR (same as Firefox 52 but updated with security patches unlike regular Fx52) for another 9 months or so.
That would give you more time to see what to do in second half of 2018.

[lovemyfoxy]

This one has made more progress
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/ ... YVSww/edit

[GLint]

Backup your profile, you could then use it along with a Portable Firefox installation of an older Firefox for experimentation or to recover data. If you are using a password saving extension, export or write down your passwords. If you are using a session saver, restore all sessions and bookmark them using ctrl-shift-d to bookmark all tabs into a bookmark folder. Take a screenshot of the list of extensions you currently have, or print the about:support page, so you can remember the names of what they used to be.

Additionally, this spreadsheet may help find replacements for some extensions: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/commen ... cy_addons/
Also note that adblock plus and ublock origin have beta versions which are webextensions and will work.
The official replacement finder is here: https://mozilla.github.io/extension-finder/ It may improve, for now its results are marginal.

The sticky thread offering suggestions / explanation is here: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... &t=3033779

Thanks for this.
Information I will look into.

[GLint]

If your extensions don't work on Fx57, they will continue to work on Firefox ESR (same as Firefox 52 but updated with security patches unlike regular Fx52) for another 9 months or so.
That would give you more time to see what to do in second half of 2018.

Nice to know. Thanks

[GLint]

This one has made more progress
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/ ... YVSww/edit

Thanks for the extra detail this shows.

[morat]

The secret to a happy marriage is to lower your standards.

The secret to a happy Firefox 57 experience is to lower your standards.

[lovemyfoxy]

"If we lower our standards daily, we'll always meet our goals."