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by cosmic_cheese 327 days ago
Orion has proven that web extensions are allowed, even if its implementation isn’t complete. There’s no guideline preventing a browser with a user-hackable UI (like Firefox userChrome) but nobody’s tried that yet. What’s left? As far as I’m aware, it’s just the small handful of manifest v2 request interceptor APIs that uBlock Origin depends on that can’t be supported fully.
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> small handful of manifest v2 request interceptor APIs that uBlock Origin depends on that can’t be supported fully

... which is the most important Firefox extension.