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Re:A grim outlook on the future of browser add-ons by palant on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @02:27AM (#24339072)
According to some Mozilla people, this part is actually wrong and extension support is indeed not implemented completely. It's merely that I couldn't (and still cannot) find a list of outstanding issues, and everything I tried worked correctly.
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Re:A grim outlook on the future of browser add-ons by causality0 on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @03:43PM (#24346120)
I wouldn't put it past them to just be straight-up lying.
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Re:A grim outlook on the future of browser add-ons by palant on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @02:59AM (#24350728)
They don't. Mozilla at this stage is still a very idealistically motivated organization. Most people are trying hard to do the right thing. It's merely that real-life constrains often lead to rather suboptimal results, despite all the good intentions.
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Re:A grim outlook on the future of browser add-ons by causality0 on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @11:31PM (#24360578)
They do lie. Mozilla claimed Quantum was fundamentally incompatible with XUL extensions, despite the fact people could simply build their own Firefox Quantum from source with XUL support turned back on.
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