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How can we best contribute to the total removal and scrapping of WebExtensions in favor of a more robust XUL development environment? How can we contribute to

by Endy 9y ago

How can we best contribute to the total removal and scrapping of WebExtensions in favor of a more robust XUL development environment? How can we contribute to Firefox not becoming another meaningless Chrome clone like Opera or Vivaldi? Because that's what I think would be the best success of Firefox, long-term.

zbraniecki 9y ago
I know you're sarcastic, but I'll try to answer anyway :) > How can we best contribute to the total removal and scrapping of WebExtensions in favor of a more robust XUL development environment? I don't know if that would be possible. We're moving a lot of XUL around these days and we'll be moving even more, hopefully to HTML soon. You'd have to gain trust in the community as a reliable person willing to maintain and keep relentlessly updating your addons APIs as the UI of Firefox moves underneath it. > How can we contribute to Firefox not becoming another meaningless Chrome clone like Opera or Vivaldi? I assume by "another clone" you refer to the fact that we're switching to WebExtensions which is a system shared with other browsers. In that case, pick any of the bugs here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215059 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215059 and help us extend the API surface to support more features :) > Because that's what I think would be the best success of Firefox, long-term. I agree! We already support more APIs in WebExtensions than any other engine as far as I know. And we only started.
- Endy 9y ago
  I'll be blunt. When you break compatibility with Classic Theme Restorer, Status-4-Evar, and QuickNote, I'm switching over, 100%, to Pale Moon. Between Australis and WebExtensions, Firefox has been moving farther and farther away from a browser I want to use. It's really getting to a point where I'm happier using Lynx.

by Endy 9y ago

zbraniecki 9y ago

I know you're sarcastic, but I'll try to answer anyway :) > How can we best contribute to the total removal and scrapping of WebExtensions in favor of a more robust XUL development environment? I don't know if that would be possible. We're moving a lot of XUL around these days and we'll be moving even more, hopefully to HTML soon. You'd have to gain trust in the community as a reliable person willing to maintain and keep relentlessly updating your addons APIs as the UI of Firefox moves underneath it. > How can we contribute to Firefox not becoming another meaningless Chrome clone like Opera or Vivaldi? I assume by "another clone" you refer to the fact that we're switching to WebExtensions which is a system shared with other browsers. In that case, pick any of the bugs here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215059 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215059 and help us extend the API surface to support more features :) > Because that's what I think would be the best success of Firefox, long-term. I agree! We already support more APIs in WebExtensions than any other engine as far as I know. And we only started.

Endy 9y ago
I'll be blunt. When you break compatibility with Classic Theme Restorer, Status-4-Evar, and QuickNote, I'm switching over, 100%, to Pale Moon. Between Australis and WebExtensions, Firefox has been moving farther and farther away from a browser I want to use. It's really getting to a point where I'm happier using Lynx.