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by yjftsjthsd-h 3017 days ago
I miss Tab Groups, FWIW.

Why does it matter if they're on GitHub? Firefox no longer has the APIs for many of these extensions to be possible.
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WalterGR 3017 days ago
Why does it matter if they're on GitHub?

I'm not OP, but usually the conversation goes like this:

Person 1: <describes problem with open source software>

Person 2: It's open source. Have you submitted a patch yet?

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the_grue 3017 days ago
I don't have an example handy, but when FF 57 was first released, I actually took the effort to check what are the prospects of extensions I use in future FF versions. I found at least one extension which required a feature that FF developers refused to fix because it would expose APIs they didn't want to expose, end of story. So it's not just a matter of "scratching your own itch", a lot of it is politics.
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WalterGR 3017 days ago
So it's not just a matter of "scratching your own itch", a lot of it is politics.

Absolutely. I don't personally believe that open source projects are above criticism - just explaining why the question was likely asked.

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