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Re:The complicated futility of WordPress by lmm on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @02:44AM (#30174868)
Firefox has had the converse problem of constantly breaking all their plugins by changing their APIs etc..
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Re:The complicated futility of WordPress by kmeisthax on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @11:51AM (#30180104)
They were able to fix this by moving to the WebExtension model instead of letting extensions directly interface with XUL/XPCOM[0]. Of course, then everyone got angry that they couldn't do ridiculously invasive changes to the browser with an extension anymore.

[0] which were then massively refactored, twice.

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