Firefox 57 as the first release where only WebExtensions will be supported

Re:Firefox 57 as the first release where only WebExtensions ... by kibwen on Saturday February 18, 2017 @01:20PM (#13675899)

And Firefox is less secure and slower because (drumroll, please...) the major architectural changes required to improve on those fronts is completely stymied by the desire to maintain backwards compatibility for addons. Firefox is at last forced to decide between being a bad but very extensible browser or a (hopefully) good but less extensible browser. IMO, the choice is pretty obvious.

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Re:Firefox 57 as the first release where only WebExtensions ... by thatguy0900 on Saturday February 18, 2017 @05:35PM (#13677069)

But chrome is already a great and less extensible browser, which is the point. If chrome is great and less extensible, and Firefox is good and less extensible, there's little reason to use Firefox unless you just don't like Google.

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Re:Firefox 57 as the first release where only WebExtensions ... by oblio on Saturday February 18, 2017 @06:48PM (#13677333)

Firefox's "less extensible" seems to be "more extensible" than Chrome's.

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