[hackuser]

From Giorgio Maone, developer of one of the most complex and most popular extensions, NoScript:

Developers and users are also concerned about add-ons being prevented from exploring radically new concepts which would require those "super powers" apparently taken away by the WebExtensions API.

I'd like to reassure them: Mozilla is investing a lot of resources to ensure that complex and innovative extensions can prosper also in the new Web-centric ecosystem. In fact, as mentioned by Bill McCloskey, at this moment I'm working within Mozilla's Electrolysis team and with other add-on authors, involved in the design of mechanisms and processes helping developers experiment in directions not supported yet by the "official" the WebExtensions API, which is going to be augmented and shaped around their needs and with their contributions.

https://hackademix.net/2015/08/22/webextensions-api-noscript...

[tn123]

From Nils Maier, developer of some of the most complex and most popular extensions, DownThemAll! (+ MinTrayR): Read my comments

That comment by Giorgio (nice guy btw, shared a room with him on at a couple of mozilla events) is over a year old by now and rather optimistic. So far, nothing of that happened, nor will it ever happened at a scale that actually accommodates most add-on developers.

[hackuser]

> So far, nothing of that happened

He wrote that it was already happening a year ago: at this moment I'm working within Mozilla's Electrolysis team and with other add-on authors, involved in the design of mechanisms and processes helping developers experiment in directions not supported yet by the "official" the WebExtensions API

I'm not an add-on developer but I've read about it happening in other places too, and I know for a fact that Giorgio is working on Firefox WebExtensions issues in Bugzilla.