Fair enough, but to be fair to cliqz, we didn't turn down their API proposal due to privacy or security concerns. The old address bar stack was kind of a mess and hard to extend in a sane way.
> Do you think the address bar rewrite will be able to satisfy cliqz's needs and therefore allow them to unfork/go back to being an add-on?
The rewrite makes it technically possible to provide any APIs they'd need. I think we'd consider patches, as we did before, with a better chance of them getting accepted.
I hope to soon see a cliqz blog post about their project unforking, only spun as an ingenious way of saving memory, improving security and extending reach.
Good to hear that Mozilla changed their mind, when we proposed an open API for extensions to access the search area it was turned down
Hi, I'm an engineer at Mozilla working on the address bar of Firefox. We recently released a rewrite of the address bar with the explicit goal of making it easier to extend and experiment with the address bar: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=quantumbar
You're welcome.