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by Vinnl 3229 days ago
Although I don't expect it, I can imagine Mozilla delaying it a bit if they have reasonable belief most of those will be ported in a reasonable amount of time.

That said, saying it's an administrative decision really misses the point. XUL support hampers performance, slows down Firefox development, and includes security issues. Those are serious reasons for moving away from them. They might not weigh up to the benefits to you, but you can't deny that they're there.
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moosingin3space 3229 days ago
They won't delay it since they've already begun breaking the old XUL extensions API in order to make room for new improvements. This is getting quite tiresome at this point -- extension devs have had over a year to port. If the extension devs are targeting Chrome too, it's easier to use WebExt than XUL anyway, and if they haven't spent this time to engage with Mozilla about expanding the WebExt spec so their extension is not possible in WebExt, the fault lies with the extension dev.
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quazeekotl 3229 days ago
I think thats pretty unfair when mozilla has been straight up refusing to implement webextension equivilents to XUL based functionality that a lot of addons depend on.

Such as the fact there is no way to enumerate what sites have html5 local storage stuff stored, thus no way to control or clear it on a per site basis, and they are not interested in changing this, rendering an addon like what self destructing cookies does imposisble...

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1329745

Or the ability for extensions to construct permission sandboxing

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1353468

There is objectively a LOT of functionality that is just plain never going to be implemented, thats far from the fault of the extension authors.

Many have been trying to work with mozilla to push in the functionality they need, but if they just get disregaurded and ignored what are they supposed to do exactly?

Don't try to place the blame for this on the extension authors.

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Animats 3229 days ago
There is that. For big-name extensions like UBlock Origin and Greasemonkey, there's a Mozilla bug which is used as a tracker for Firefox-side issues which need to be fixed. Lesser extensions don't get that kind of attention.

When I was porting my extension, my big worry was "is there going to be something I need to do that doesn't work?" But there were no show-stopper bugs.

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