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by AndrewDucker 3129 days ago
I agree. Been using Firefox continuously since it first appeared. And I miss some of my extensions.

But they're clearly working on improving what you can do with extensions, only now they're doing it in a coherent manner rather than just letting people have access to the browser chrome to hack about whatever they fancied. And that feels much more stable and architecturally stable as something to build on for the future. I'm prepared to give them a few releases to build on that and make it both fast and extensible.

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> And that feels much more stable and architecturally stable as something to build on for the future. I'm prepared to give them a few releases to build on that and make it both fast and extensible.

This should also enable them to keep the extensions that use supported apis working between releases much easier. I remember the early days of firefox where any update meant that some random subset of your extensions would break because they were doing something to the UI that the devs didn't expect.