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Re:Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker ... by AsyncAwait on Sunday June 09, 2019 @03:48PM (#20141444)
> Ironically Firefox killed their extension API to be compatible with Chrome's extensions.

This is misleading. They deprecated the old API primarily to be able to do multi-process and get rid of XUL.

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Re:Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker ... by kibwen on Sunday June 09, 2019 @04:20PM (#20141646)
As well as to expose a stable extension API (no more XUL extensions breaking randomly on every browser update) and to enforce any sort of security boundary/permissions system.
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Re:Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker ... by metildaa on Sunday June 09, 2019 @04:27PM (#20141687)
Note that this was done after two prior failed attempts to rewrite the CSS engine for multithread in C++: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/02/rewriting-a-browser-compon...

Its sad to lose DownThemAll and the plethora of othwr XUL extensions, but having performant multicore support is critical given the shift to having many cores (as single thread performance improvements become uncommon).

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Re:Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker ... by girvo on Sunday June 09, 2019 @06:13PM (#20142278)
Which honestly makes sense. Komodo is one of my favourite editors, but Christ working with XUL is painful!
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Re:Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker ... by qbaqbaqba on Monday June 10, 2019 @01:35AM (#20144160)
> get rid of XUL

XUL is still used by the browser itself.

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