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Re:Angular 1.x Banned from Firefox Addons by jaredsohn on Thursday October 20, 2016 @03:41PM (#12755430)
>IIRC Firefox addons are significantly more powerful than Chrome extensions

I think that is only if you use the C++ API and that this post is talking about their JavaScript API.

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Re:Angular 1.x Banned from Firefox Addons by bzbarsky on Thursday October 20, 2016 @03:57PM (#12755573)
It's possible to write Firefox extensions in JavaScript that are a lot more powerful than Chrome extensions (or webextensions, which are the Firefox equivalent of Chrome extensions) are. That capability is slowly being phased out, though.
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Re:Angular 1.x Banned from Firefox Addons by masklinn on Friday October 21, 2016 @03:43AM (#12758825)
> I think that is only if you use the C++ API

No, historical XPI addons are in JS (and XML and CSS). While they can bundle native code most don't, but they run in at the same privilege level as the browser itself (consider Firebug, which was and still is an addon).

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