uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions

Re:uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions by michaelmrose on Thursday August 10, 2017 @05:35AM (#14978013)

I guess you would lose some of your remaining market share to chrome and wonder how much smaller your revenue is going to be when the yahoo deal expires?

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Re:uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions by littlestymaar on Thursday August 10, 2017 @05:24PM (#14984446)

> I guess you would lose some of your remaining market share to chrome

So, you're saying that:

- some people kept using Firefox because it had more powerful extensions than Google Chrome.

- these people are upset because mozilla is breaking the old extensions in favor of a less powerful alternative (still better than Chrome's, that the main point of the OP)

- then people are going to move to Google Chrome which still is the worst browser for extensions

Who reasons this way ? There are legitimate reasons for being upset (my favorite addon disapeared and that makes me sad / I need to rewrite all my addons, depending if you're a user or an addon dev), but I don't think anyone will shoot himself in the foot and use a worse (addon-wise at least) alternative just because mozilla's people are mean !

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Re:uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions by michaelmrose on Saturday August 12, 2017 @03:21AM (#14996850)

Most users aren't developers they aren't judging the relative power of extension systems they just are liable to notice useful extensions going away.

Firefox on Linux seems to me to be slower and crappier save for interesting extensions.

Enough so that I've just decided to ditch Firefox even before interesting extensions go south.

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