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Re:Web Extension equivalents to legacy Firefox add-ons by throwanem on Monday December 25, 2017 @04:09PM (#16005721)
It's not precisely impossible to port, but it's a lot more complicated; in practice it requires a separate platform-specific executable, registered with the browser, to marshal between the browser and the editor.

I miss it, too. But not enough to reimplement it, at least not yet.

Re:Web Extension equivalents to legacy Firefox add-ons by adia on Monday December 25, 2017 @04:14PM (#16005731)
I was a heavy It's All Text! user, too, and fortunately, an alternative exists, implemented just as you describe. See: https://github.com/jlebon/textern