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Re:Google Will Help Publishers Prepare for a Chrome Ad Block... by Mayzie on Thursday June 01, 2017 @11:26PM (#14467206)
It won't for long when they deprecate their extension API and move to Chromes...
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Re:Google Will Help Publishers Prepare for a Chrome Ad Block... by clouddrover on Friday June 02, 2017 @12:56AM (#14467550)
The dev tools are built into Firefox by default. So what do you base your claim on?
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Re:Google Will Help Publishers Prepare for a Chrome Ad Block... by y4mi on Friday June 02, 2017 @04:32AM (#14468395)
pretty sure he was talking about the extensions that extend them though. firebug comes to mind.
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Re:Google Will Help Publishers Prepare for a Chrome Ad Block... by clouddrover on Friday June 02, 2017 @04:41AM (#14468436)
Firefox DevTools was built from Firebug, which is why they no longer develop Firebug. See the Firebug website: http://getfirebug.com/

And here's some more history: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/12/firebug-lives-on-in-firefo...

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Re:Google Will Help Publishers Prepare for a Chrome Ad Block... by robin_reala on Friday June 02, 2017 @06:23AM (#14468852)
No, Firefox Dev Tools is a completely seperate project historically. Firebug version 3 and up built on top of it, but that’s the only connection (beyond commonality in tool function).
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Re:Google Will Help Publishers Prepare for a Chrome Ad Block... by H4CK3RM4N on Friday June 02, 2017 @04:10AM (#14468315)
They're sadly moving towards interoperability/feature-parity with WebExtensions, but I don't think they'll change entirely at any point.
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Re:Google Will Help Publishers Prepare for a Chrome Ad Block... by Crespyl on Friday June 02, 2017 @03:42PM (#14472759)
I think they've explicitly stated that they're planning to entirely remove XUL from the codebase, eventually.
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Re:Google Will Help Publishers Prepare for a Chrome Ad Block... by derefr on Thursday June 01, 2017 @11:52PM (#14467302)
Presumably that won't mean that Firefox will only install extensions from the Chrome Web Store, though. addons.mozilla.org will continue to exist.
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