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Can't they just stop making changes that cause plugins and extensions to break? I know that would be easier said than done, but Chrome seems to do a good job o
by thatjoshguy 15y ago
Can't they just stop making changes that cause plugins and extensions to break?
I know that would be easier said than done, but Chrome seems to do a good job of it.
- jerf 15y agoAFAIK, Chrome plugins still have much less access and power than Firefox plugins, which makes it easier for Chrome.
- starwed 15y agoFirefox addons are traditionally written using the same API the browser itself uses. That's what makes them much more powerful than Chrome extensions, but clearly more fragile to breakage. They're starting to offer a separate extension SDK (formerly called Jetpack) that allows extensions to ignore the internal API and build against something more stable. Such add-ons can be installed without requiring a restart, and should be much easier to update, but many important extensions need more power than currently provided. (Ad block is a good example.)
- SkyMarshal 15y agoAs is vimperator and pentadactyl.
- mcpherrinm 15y agoIn short: Not with the old API. In this recent newsgroup post, you can see a list of the things that could break an extension, and it's a lot. http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.planning/browse_thread/thread/dafd0bc59b587e27# http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.planning/browse_t... The work to solve that is mentioned in the thread.