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A comment on Mozilla’s Uncertain Future. Parent comment

Re:Mozilla’s Uncertain Future by gvjddbnvdrbv on Saturday August 15, 2020 @01:25PM (#24170518)
Yes I also use the various attempts at vim emulation in the newer Firefox versions. The attempts are commendable given the limitations of the APIs. None of them are anywhere near as powerful in terms of vim like behaviour. If you never used any of the really powerful old style extensions you have no point of comparison.

But this is irrelevant. Previously extensions could do anything to alter Firefox. Webextensions are deliberately limited in scope - this is explicitly stated by the Firefox developers. So to say extensions as well supported as ever is factually wrong. The support is much more limited now.

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Re:Mozilla’s Uncertain Future by causality0 on Monday August 17, 2020 @10:37PM (#24194723)
It's like going from a pad and paper to a typewriter. Sure, you can write much faster, more precisely, and everybody to the same standards, but you're fucked if what you wanted to do was draw a spaceship. Then there's always the apologists who come in to say that their ASCII-art spaceships are basically fulfilling the same function of the ones you used to draw and you should stop complaining.
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