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The biggest reason I use Firefox over Chrome is because of DownThemAll; an extension that would stop working when turn off XUL support. Trying to follow market

The biggest reason I use Firefox over Chrome is because of DownThemAll; an extension that would stop working when turn off XUL support. Trying to follow market trends is whats gonna kill Firefox.

pcwalton 11y ago
Eliminating XUL isn't being done for the fun of it—there are significant benefits. This comment also presupposes that there's no way to implement DownThemAll in the Web Extensions model. See this thread (including my replies to it) the last time this came up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10099816 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10099816
- muddi900 11y ago
  I am not presupposing anything, here is DownThemAll's own blog post on the subject: http://www.downthemall.net/the-likely-end-of-downthemall/ http://www.downthemall.net/the-likely-end-of-downthemall/
- ant6n 11y ago
  aside: can DownThemAll download html websites in a scraping fashion?