Thanks for that link, now I can clearly see that from the power-user perspective WebExtensions is a dead-end. If you look at the RESOLVED WONTFIX issues linked

Thanks for that link, now I can clearly see that from the power-user perspective WebExtensions is a dead-end. If you look at the RESOLVED WONTFIX issues linked in that bug, you will find a lot of them are rejected based on political reasons. For example: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1246706 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1246706 Listen, I don't care whether features that I need don't fit the WebExtensions security model or whether they are confusing to a clueless user. If you can't support these features as part of WebExtensions, please design a separate set of APIs. Fine with me if you market extensions targeting these lower-level APIs as "dangerous, use at your own risk".