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Mozilla is already planning on extension WebExtensions beyond what Chrome does with it (I believe they even implemented some of it already) and are planning on

Mozilla is already planning on extension WebExtensions beyond what Chrome does with it (I believe they even implemented some of it already) and are planning on adding even more to enable the functionality of some of the more popular legacy extensions (bookmark trees, tab management, etc).

kirillkh 9y ago
There is an umbrella issue that aggregates proposed improvements to WebExtensions [1]. If you look at RESOLVED WONTFIX issues linked in that bug, you will find a lot of them are rejected based on political reasons. For example: [2]. So there will never be anything close to feature parity with XUL extensions. [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215059 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215059 [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1246706 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1246706