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by mrbig4545 3902 days ago
addons do not use npapi, so vimperator, ublock, tab mix plus, etc will still work
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For now, but XUL and XPCOM are also on the chopping block. Overall, it looks like Mozilla is planning to get rid of native access entirely.
There's nothing stopping you from bundling native code with your addon and having the addon launch the native process and communicate via a pipe.