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by pseudalopex 3409 days ago
The problems with XUL have been discussed for over 5 years, but there hasn't been a solution. WebExtensions was announced 18 months ago, was deemed stable for developers 8 months later, and only just got a reasonable migration path with embedded WebExtensions in Firefox 51.

There's been plenty of communication from developers on Bugzilla. People are alarmed because Mozilla's original estimate fell way short, the deprecation roadmap is a lot more specific than the implementation roadmap[1], and migration is going to suck for extensions that need APIs missing from Firefox 52.

[1] https://trello.com/b/PC9kB14s/webextensions-roadmap