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Sorry, Mozilla Broke That Link

I have been getting E-mails about some links on FirefoxFacts.com not working. That is just crazy talk I thought. Mozilla isn’t goofy enough to start removing extensions and changing links left and right, are they? Well I have to say I was proven wrong.

Mozilla’s new addon Web site has broken my Web site and a dozen others out there that have linked to extensions in the past.

So if you are checking out a link here and find an “extension not found” that is because Mozilla ditched it to the wayside. There have been some really good themes and extensions missing from the new Web site as well. Why delete them Mozilla crew?

I have been a big Mozilla fan since day one, but this time around I have to call a spade a spade and say they screwed up. Bring back the old Mozilla Updates Web site!

Update: Looks like links are coming back - or so I am being told via E-mail. I have been talking with several people from Mozilla and they promise they the broken links should only be a temporary thing as they work the bugs out of the new system. Mozilla, you won me back over again! Thanks for getting it fixed quickly!

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Mozilla Trashes Extensions? » Mitchelaneous said,

March 26, 2007 @ 7:21 am

[...] have gotten a lot of people saying that some links on my Firefox blog, FirefoxFacts.com are broken now because of this. I’ll be doing my best trying to fix their mess and finding [...]

birdguy said,

March 26, 2007 @ 11:31 am

This is crap, why would they want to get rid of extensions? I can understand the old ones that are no longer updated but there are a lot of new ones that are missing too.

Mitch said,

March 26, 2007 @ 12:57 pm

Looks like things have been taken care of birdguy. :) Let me know though if you notice any other links not working and I will do my best to pass the word long.

Mike said,

March 26, 2007 @ 2:27 pm

i’ve lost RSS feeds for newest addons … can’t find them anywhere …

Mitch said,

March 26, 2007 @ 3:12 pm

Looks like the Mozilla RSS extensions feed is dead also. I can’t see them leaving that gone for too long though. Probably another thing that will come back as soon as they have the new layout and way of ding things finalized.

Mike said,

March 27, 2007 @ 1:17 pm

been gone quite a few weeks now … the themes feed too … hope they sort it out soon … they’re so useful rather than always checking back to the site …

the-edmeister said,

March 27, 2007 @ 6:18 pm

Mozilla.org manages to screw up the UMO/AMO website every time they make a major change. When Firefox 1.0 was released in November 2004, UMO was closed to new extensions and updates for already listed extensions from like mid-December into March 2005 - fortunately The Extensions Mirror was a new a popular web site at that time and it was able to take up the ’slack’, but now-a-days they don’t deliver extensions that are listed at AMO - so we’re SOL for all but the most esoteric.
Ed

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