closes #1289

src/middleware/middleware.js

@@ -155,16 +155,13 @@ middleware.buildHeader = function(req, res, next) {
 			});
 		},
 		function(next) {
-			// this is slower than the original implementation because the rendered template is not cached
+			// consider caching this, since no user specific information is loaded here
-			// but I didn't bother to fix this because we will deprecate [filter:footer.build] in favour of the widgets system by 0.4x
+			app.render('footer', {}, function(err, template) {
-			plugins.fireHook('filter:footer.build', '', function(err, appendHTML) {
-				app.render('footer', {footerHTML: appendHTML}, function(err, template) {
 				translator.translate(template, function(parsedTemplate) {
 					res.locals.footer = template;
 					next(err);
 				});
 			});
-			});
 		}
 	], function(err) {
 		next(err);