Firefox/Features/Easier Add-on Compatibility
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Feature | Status | ETA | Owner |
Solution to frequent compatibility updates | Tools implementation underway. | 2011-06-01 | Justin Scott |
Summary
The manual, multi-month add-on compatibility process that has been used in previous releases of Firefox is not feasible for quarterly releases.
Add-ons that don’t use binary components should not require manual compatibility updates with new Firefox releases unless directly affected by a compatibility change. Such breaking compatibility changes should be minimal and well-documented.
Plan
The details of this plan are located here. They will be cleaned up and moved to this wiki in April.
Bugs for tools implementation are here.