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Re:Mozilla Launches Venture Fund to Fuel Responsible Tech Co... by notriddle on Thursday November 03, 2022 @05:17PM (#33457751)
Bringing back XUL extensions won't rescue Firefox, because removing XUL extensions is not what caused Firefox to lose marketshare in the first place.

https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/108/556/56...

Source for the "XUL Deprecated in August 2015" date: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/08/21/the-future-of-dev...

Source for the browser stats over time: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BrowserUsageShare.pn...

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Re:Mozilla Launches Venture Fund to Fuel Responsible Tech Co... by Am4TIfIsER0ppos on Friday November 04, 2022 @10:09AM (#33466958)
So what? XUL was a "technology that respect users" but was replaced because firefox needed to copy chrome.
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