> That approach doesn't work well given Firefox's established track record of just imitating Chrome Established track record? What? > and then getting rid of

> That approach doesn't work well given Firefox's established track record of just imitating Chrome Established track record? What? > and then getting rid of the prior (and better) way of doing things. Do you mean how they did the complete opposite by keeping Manifest v2 around for much longer than Google wanted to? Then by making their own Manifest v3 that didn't gimp ad blockers like google has been trying to for years? > XUL extension developers are well aware of this problem, for example. XUL was super useful... for it's time. But it became a drag on performance as Firefox became more optimised for multi-core CPUs. And it became a drag for developers trying to support an older standard. Sure the new extension standard became more difficult to get started, but it did push the workers standards forwards which is ultimately what the web needed. > We've seen it happen repeatedly with Firefox's UI, too. Firefox's UI goes up and down in quality all the time. Thinking nothing is improving at all is an observational bias.