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I love Firefox because it's like the Emacs of browsers [1]. It's self-discoverable, it can be scripted and it has dozens of wonderful extensions. To me, droppi

by nextos 10y ago

I love Firefox because it's like the Emacs of browsers [1]. It's self-discoverable, it can be scripted and it has dozens of wonderful extensions. To me, dropping their plugin architecture to achieve compatibility with Chrome is a bit absurd. Vimperator, GreaseMonkey and many others make Firefox unique. [1] I know there's Conkeror, but the project seems to have stalled.

yellowapple 10y ago
Not only has Conkeror stalled, but scrapping XUL is a surefire way to murder it in cold blood. The only option going forward would be to rewrite it as an alternate browser that uses Gecko and/or Servo as the engine. My hope is that the move to WebExtensions will actually help here. Currently, Conkeror is theoretically compatible with Firefox extension-wise, but it often meant writing a bunch of glue code to expose Firefox extension functionality without Firefox' actual UI. Now that extensions are forced to be UI agnostic, it seems reasonable that a browser that's Firefox-compatible could have a much easier time with that. Hopefully a post-XUL Firefox will continue to support something along the basic lines of XULRunner (i.e. present a Firefox window without the actual UI) to make that easier than having to fork Firefox itself.