[eternalny1]

I agree this was rough but things need to be taken into context with this in my opinion.

Given their small "market share", it would seem right to remove a major burden to rapid development (the old extension format, XPI) in favor of open standards (web workers).

It's more maintainable, more in-line with current standards. I am only speaking as a fly-on-the-wall here. Although I am a senior "full stack" developer, I am pretty far removed from any of the day-to-day here.

By wiping the slate clean in terms of extensions, hopefully this will be a small paint-point, quickly forgotten, and things move forward from here.

Re-reading this prior to submit, it seems like I've inserted too many items straight out of the BS generator but I'm ok with it.

[JohnFen]

"it would seem right to remove a major burden to rapid development (the old extension format, XPI) in favor of open standards (web workers)."

Perhaps. But it sure would have been better if the new extension system were as capable as the old before axing the extensions. The loss in functionality, for me, is unacceptable. At the heart of it, this is what made me give up entirely on post-57 Firefox.