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I'll probably get a ton of hate for this, but I was disappointed with their latest announcement regarding add-ons. When one of the most prominent developers for
by rnovak 11y ago
I'll probably get a ton of hate for this, but I was disappointed with their latest announcement regarding add-ons. When one of the most prominent developers for add-ons for their platform came forward (DownThemAll!, with more than 1.3 Million Users), instead of publicly asking which APIs that developer would need to allow their add-on to continue working, it was basically "oh well, sucks for you I guess". That attitude really doesn't jive with me, so there's no doubt that I'll discontinue my use of their browser, purely over idealogical reasons. But hey, this is just my own opinion.
- fabrice_d 11y agoIt's true that we communicated badly. But we didn't answer "oh well, sucks for you I guess" either. The plan is at https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions/FAQ https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions/FAQ and https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions#Additional_APIs https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions#Additional_APIs
- rnovak 11y agoNo one may have written those words exactly, but the sentiment was surely there. In this[1] thread, every comment from a Mozilla employee was a justification of the decision, no one offered support to that developer or asked for feedback regarding which APIs were important. That absolutely has the effect of telling someone they're SOL. [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10099240 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10099240