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I work on an extension for Chrome, Opera, Safari, and Firefox that's pretty widely used. Firefox (Jetpack) is so different from the rest that I basically hate w
by Guzba 11y ago
I work on an extension for Chrome, Opera, Safari, and Firefox that's pretty widely used. Firefox (Jetpack) is so different from the rest that I basically hate working on it.
I get that some people may love XUL and whatever, but having never used it, I can't really comment. All I do know is that Jetpack (which Firefox has been pushing) is a sorry excuse for a way to build extensions after you've worked with Chrome. I really hope WebExtensions makes my life easier soon.
- drethemadrapper 11y agoThey (Moz. dev team) have now even gone wild by hiding the Addon SDK from developers. It's not on their servers but buried in github, covered by several versions of a new app./development tool. It took me a long time to locate it. It all appears that they don't want us to use it (perhaps because of the cfx they are deprecating for jpm). Yet, a developer needs it to upgrade or develop their (new) extensions ( xul->bootstrapped extension with/without the sdk lib.). On another note, extension development is now like a node app. dev. -- their directory structures now look like. It's funny yet interesting (standardizing addon dev.??).... This whole gospel about the SDK is a way of hiding the details/core of the FF browser from developers - ending the use of XUL/XPCOM, going HTML, e.t.c. Perhaps, Moz. needs to help make extension dev. easy for 'web designers'.
- asmicom 11y agoI can confirm the increase in difficulty of writing FF extensions these days. There is no ONE go-to source for information.