Mozilla and Add-ons
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Firefox 40.0.3 Brings Bug-Fixes Only
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Reactions to Mozilla’s announcement about upcoming Firefox add-on changes
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Mixed Feelings Greet Mozilla's Add-ons Overhaul
Also new is a requirement for add-ons to be reviewed and signed by Mozilla before their deployment. Back in April, Mozilla's security lead Daniel Veditz published The Case for Extension Signing, addressing the volume of feedback their announcement had generated from the developer community. Veditz said the internet browsing experience for tens of thousands of people was being shaped by "third party add-ons in ways they did not choose and that benefit third parties, not the user."
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Please, God, Don't Let Mozilla Ruin Firefox
A week ago, Mozilla shed some light on its future, laying out a plan on how the browser is going to dramatically change in the upcoming months. While most of us understood "Chrome extensions were coming to Firefox," it is not as simple as we all thought.
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The future of Firefox Add-ons - Nope
Once in a while, I must give my sermons, to help you figure out how things work. Why this is not going to be good for us, the users, and why we must duly prepare, in advance. As it happens, Mozilla does not fully understand the market. It truly does not. When you make decisions based on incorrect data, you are bound to make a disastrous choice. Let's try to amend this, if possible.
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Firefox and XUL
Functionality in the addons is written in Javascript. Only the UI is in XUL. Droping XUL support won't cost much apart from having to rewrite the UI of addons in plain html (and html5 makes that job easier). if I understand correctly, XUL is basically "xml addons" to html. Migrating to html5 could be better for interoperability with other rendering engines.