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Re:Mozilla to stop Sponsored Tiles in Firefox by muddi900 on Friday December 04, 2015 @11:04PM (#10680782)
The biggest reason I use Firefox over Chrome is because of DownThemAll; an extension that would stop working when turn off XUL support. Trying to follow market trends is whats gonna kill Firefox.
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Re:Mozilla to stop Sponsored Tiles in Firefox by pcwalton on Friday December 04, 2015 @11:14PM (#10680815)
Eliminating XUL isn't being done for the fun of it—there are significant benefits. This comment also presupposes that there's no way to implement DownThemAll in the Web Extensions model.

See this thread (including my replies to it) the last time this came up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10099816

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Re:Mozilla to stop Sponsored Tiles in Firefox by muddi900 on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @12:20PM (#10697799)
I am not presupposing anything, here is DownThemAll's own blog post on the subject: http://www.downthemall.net/the-likely-end-of-downthemall/
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Re:Mozilla to stop Sponsored Tiles in Firefox by ant6n on Saturday December 05, 2015 @12:50AM (#10681038)
aside: can DownThemAll download html websites in a scraping fashion?
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