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Re:Browser Extensions Standard by josteink on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @07:59AM (#14899754)
> Is that a net win? I'm not sure.

While I as a developer greatly appreciate creating things with the new WebExtensions APIs over old Firefox XUL thingies, I can see how they severely limit my capabilities. If the browser says "You can't do that", I can't do that.

And based on that, you don't have to look too hard into the Firefox userbase to find out that quite a lot people have an answer for your question: "No"

(Background: Firefox is going WebExtensions only in a near upcoming release. Not everyone is thrilled about that)

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Re:Browser Extensions Standard by gorhill on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @08:13AM (#14899839)
> If the browser says "You can't do that", I can't do that.

Consider WebExtensions Experiments: https://webextensions-experiments.readthedocs.io/en/latest/w...

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