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> But it wasnt a standard, other than that it was by far the highest potential most capable most interesting user-agency extension on the planet by a good measu
by mook 4y ago
> But it wasnt a standard, other than that it was by far the highest potential most capable most interesting user-agency extension on the planet by a good measure.
While the Chrome extension API was certainly the most wide-reaching at the time, it wasn't the most capable. I used to have a Firefox extension that made Win32 API calls. Mozilla ended up deciding it wasn't sustainable, I guess?
- rektide 4y agoI very very very rarely try to declare someone's feature to be an anti-feature, but as a Linux user: the feature you proclaim is- distinctly & clearly- a huge antifeature I want kept far away from the web & it's extensions. What is a feature to you is a huge will not run anywhere else to me.
- sroussey 4y agoThe extension API for Firefox was simply the entire internal api of the browser. Making it work cross process (everything was single process) was a huge pain and things were going to break depending on how you used the APIs. And the security considerations of accessing every api was a big issue. On the other hand, Firebug could not have been created without it…