Ublock: Firefox 57 and UBO

[rayman89]

UBO appears to not be compatible with firefox 57+ Are there plans to make it compatible?

[gwarser]

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/2576#issue-225417939

[rayman89]

So if I understood correctly UBO is both a web extension and a legacy addon and that's why it appears to be labeled legacy even if it's compatible with ff57+?

[bershan2]

@rayman89 No, current uBO will not run on FF57+, but future uBO will. Firefox undergoes an API transition right now, and starting from "Firefox 57, November 14th release Firefox will only run WebExtensions". Therefore uBO was made into WebExtension with a wrapper code to ensure compatibility with older browsers: uBO just recently dropped support for browsers released in 2015 (see issue 2612)!

[anewuser]

Use this page only to report bugs, i.e. problems that make uBlock Origin stop working on current browsers. Please close this issue and read this carefully before posting here again: CONTRIBUTING.md.

For support/discussions, there is Mozilla Discourse.

[gorhill]

Search the issue tracker before opening issues please: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues?q=is%3Aissue+webext => https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/622

Closing and marking as _invalid_, as per CONTRIBUTING.

[ghost]

Problem is: Addons labeled legacy, even if compatible are now being deactivated randomly on FF 55.0.3. (Not after the update, just randomly sometime while running)
The solution to date is to reactivate it again manually.

[anewuser]

@alsternerd Please report that to Mozilla instead of generating noise here.