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I remember that! Shortly after they had two extension competitions with large prizes. Some fantastic extensions was created and bootstraped the extension ecos

I remember that! Shortly after they had two extension competitions with large prizes. Some fantastic extensions was created and bootstraped the extension ecosystem. At its peak even what later became the ubiquitous developer tools across all modern browsers was just an extension to Firefox (Firebug).

wackget 5y ago
...then they destroyed every extension by completely changing the extensions architecture.
- _Algernon_ 5y ago
  ...while promising that they would implement new APIs to allow for the same extensions to be built. (still waiting)
- kevincox 5y ago
  I think the new extension architecture is fantastic, and I think it is great that they encourage people to use it. However I don't think it was smart to kill the raw power of the old extension API. I would have loved for them to add scary warnings to the store, and ruthlessly break backwards compatibility. However they went so far to make it impossible for the average user to run these extensions. You need different versions of Firefox and you can't load them on the store.