That's interesting. I read it the same way you do. It's my guess that the info is simply wrong, but it's odd that the page has been updated lately, and that part wasn't changed.
If that were true, it would imply that nothing in the Firefox code base was changed which inherently prevents legacy addons from working. And that it's just an on/off switch somewhere to disallow it. I had thought that the Quantum changes were simply incompatible with legacy addons.
But I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere else that legacy addons would still work anywhere but older versions of Firefox.
I have read that PaleMoon and WaterFox, both Firefox forks, support both WebExtensions and Legacy addons. So that's another option to try. But I had issues with both of them the last time I tried them (which was quite a while back).
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Date: 2017-11-26 04:35 am (UTC)From:If that were true, it would imply that nothing in the Firefox code base was changed which inherently prevents legacy addons from working. And that it's just an on/off switch somewhere to disallow it. I had thought that the Quantum changes were simply incompatible with legacy addons.
But I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere else that legacy addons would still work anywhere but older versions of Firefox.
I have read that PaleMoon and WaterFox, both Firefox forks, support both WebExtensions and Legacy addons. So that's another option to try. But I had issues with both of them the last time I tried them (which was quite a while back).