[blowski]

Aren’t they then still playing catch-up with Chrome et al instead of doing something new and innovative.

Firefox’s add-ons were influential in spawning today’s App Stores. They introduced tabbed browsing. A JavaScript console and DOM manipulation tools. Internet Explorer had nothing like it, which is why Firefox so quickly caught on.

[latexr]

Innovative features don’t matter if the basic ones I need aren’t present. If Firefox introduced the innovation of tabs[1] but couldn’t render pages, tabs would have been useless.

I wasn’t proposing that implementing AppleScript will shoot up Firefox’s market share, just that until they do, I (and others that care deeply about automation) won’t even look in its general direction as a serious contender to being the main browser.

[1]: They didn’t; NetCaptor did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netcaptor

[desas]

Pretty sure opera had both tabs and a somewhat recognised brand before Firefox had either.