In less than a year Firefox addons will be restricted to using webextensions like Chrome

In less than a year Firefox addons will be restricted to using webextensions like Chrome.

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As long as uMatrix works.

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>mozilla in ebin
>rust in ebin
Next year will be great.

What the hell is the point in using Firefox if it's just like Chrome?

So you don't have Google Botnet.

It have botnet, but you can disable it currently.

You think you can, maybe. They've got several hidden layers of botnet that even the pros hadn't hacked out.

Pale Moon is a fork from Firefox 24 ESR and will never have this problem.

I also thought it's a catastrophe, but their last testpilot experiments is very promising. We'll see if they manage to reimplement all needed low-level apis in webextensions stack, technically it is possible. If so, we can just drop obsoleted xul in favor of modern wide-compatible environment without losing anything. Not as bad as you think.
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>cockona

yeah, they're normalizing their API with chrome's but they aren't LIMITING it to chrome's. Chrome has always been stingy about letting people under the hood.

The concern would be nice extensions that aren't wildly popular and/or are unmaintained.
Adblock and greasemonkey will be supported but the little guys might get left in the dust.

well they're ALREADY left in the dust without e10s support, just look at vimperator/pentadactyl AGAIN.

Is there any benefit from the switch to webextensions
Why do they do it?

Well they had another system they were trying to move into before but it flopped something fierce. Jetpack/addon SDK. Literally userscripts.

>trade one problem for 500000 problems

great idea user haha

Current codebase is forked from ESR38

Time for a new browser.

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good, saves me the work of writing all my addons for 2 browsers completely separately

Will I still be able to style the userchrome with css? That is literally the only reason I use firefox over chromium.

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Why not just use Vivaldi if that's what you want

groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/firefox-dev/TTgBjmeFoKA

> I don't think Activity Stream necessarily needs to be rewritten as a WebExtension, and especially not in the short term - it's going to require a bunch of new WE APIs that will take time to stabilize, Activity Stream will almost certainly need features that we don't want to extend to WebExtensions in general.

KEK, Can't even rewrite their own system addons to webextensions in time, or even wouldn't do it at all apparently, but forced developers to do it with their addons. What a hacks.

Good, addons are the proper place for stupid features that ought to be optional.

Firefox is to Chrome what AMD is to Intel. An argument against the notion Chrome/Intel is a monopoly