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Not that Mozilla has ever really cared a lot to maintain backwards compatibility for the APIs that are public. Maybe it has improved in the last years, but some
by rob74 5y ago
Not that Mozilla has ever really cared a lot to maintain backwards compatibility for the APIs that are public. Maybe it has improved in the last years, but some years ago I developed an extension which didn't need a lot of updates for its actual functionality, but I had to revisit it time and time again just so it would still work with the newest Firefox version...
- chrismorgan 5y agoAnd that showed the problem of the XUL approach: when everything is public interface, nothing is stable. WebExtensions, on the other hand, has a carefully-defined API with much more dependable stability guarantees.