Re:uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions
by sp332 on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @07:34PM
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But as a user, you're probably just going to want to know if there is an extension that does what you need. Are you worried about the underlying APIs if you're not a developer?
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Re:uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions
by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday August 10, 2017 @07:10AM
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I don't care for myself, but the author of one of my favorite extensions has stated that he's not porting to a webextension because he doesn't want to rewrite (again) and because (at the time he looked, at least) the APIs didn't really support it. I don't care about the API directly, but I absolutely care when they're insufficient.
Re:uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions
by sp332 on Thursday August 10, 2017 @10:19AM
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The API is expanding pretty quickly and FF developers are taking input from addon devs. https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions#Firefox_57 There are even some people who have "office hours" available to give advice for porting old plugins to the new APIs. https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2017/03/09/office-hours-supp... They really don't want the APIs to be insufficient either.
Re:uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions
by spiznnx on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @07:36PM
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I care about the direction of the project.
Re:uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions
by sp332 on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @07:41PM
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Something like the Mozilla Hacks blog https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/08/firefox-55-supports-webvr/ or the Add-ons Blog https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2017/08/03/extension-example... or just the main Mozilla blog? https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/07/20/firefox-focus-andro...