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Nobody said Firefox was easy to develop add-ons for, the GP said "The add-ons are what makes firefox good". The add-on API itself might be arcane and confusing
by __david__ 11y ago
Nobody said Firefox was easy to develop add-ons for, the GP said "The add-ons are what makes firefox good". The add-on API itself might be arcane and confusing and horrible, but you basically have access to everything. Since the entire browser is written in XUL, add-ons can override and recreate anything at any level.
The end result is that Firefox users have a much wider array of add-ons to use (despite the add-on system being somewhat crazy by today's standards).
- charlesism 11y agoWell I disagree with him/her there too. What made Firefox good was that it was a lightweight, simple browser, that rendered content exactly the same on three OSes. It's still my main browser, but that's only because I want less Google in my life, and because Safari aspires to be a motion picture instead of a tool. But I haven't considered Firefox actually "good" since probably 2010, or whenever it was that they dumped a bucket of LSD on the interface. Since then it's become a bloated mess. If someone wants to add toolbars and skins, etc, I suppose the new API would disappoint. But it's hard for me to relate, because I'm not that adventurous. The ones I really care about, generally AdBlock and privacy extensions, just interact with web content, not chrome. That sort of add-on is just as available on Google Chrome.
- superkuh 11y agoTell it to NoScript.
- charlesism 11y agoHa, well you do have a point there.