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Re:A grim outlook on the future of browser add-ons by ChrisSD on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @01:30AM (#24338841)
Who do you think people complain to when their browser doesn't work right? It doesn't matter if an addon is responsible, many people will blame the browser (or at least go to them for support). This increases the support cost and leads to a very negative perception of the browser itself. Also I'd suggest that addon authors publicly complaining about broken Firefox APIs would be a whole other headache for Mozilla.

We've been here before with desktop Firefox when the browser got a lot of flak for issues that were mainly caused by addons.

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Re:A grim outlook on the future of browser add-ons by Arnavion on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @02:26AM (#24339069)
>This increases the support cost and leads to a very negative perception of the browser itself.

Their solution to that problem hasn't exactly led to a positive perception of the browser either, and it hasn't even left them the out of blaming it on anyone but themselves.

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Re:A grim outlook on the future of browser add-ons by ChrisSD on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @02:32AM (#24339093)
Sure. But there's no good solution here. As I said, the decision to support only one browser on Android is what lead to this. That browser isn't fully ready so all the team can do is go for the least worst option (which is admittedly a judgement call).

Besides, it would not be a good look to be blaming extension authors for Mozilla's problems. So I don't think that's a viable "out".

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