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I am the DownThemAll! developer. The statement is still current.

I communicated to the mozilla people who got in touch with me that there will not be a crippled DownThemAll!, at least not from me.

There is a reply on a review for the new release from September 1, 2016 which says:

"Just to clarify: We did not port it to the WebExtensions API, nor do we think it is possible to port it in any significant manner to the WebExtensions API..."

https://addons.mozilla.org/En-us/firefox/addon/downthemall/r...

At least they are releasing new versions yet:

http://www.downthemall.net/downthemall-3-0-5/

“After a rather long long time, with many new things to address such as Australis, e10s, limited time we could spend on the project, a little lack of motivation after mozilla required mostly pointless signatures and announced to kill XUL add-ons…” - Nils, September 2016