Why Did Mozilla Remove XUL Add-Ons? (2020)

Re:Why Did Mozilla Remove XUL Add-Ons? (2020) by mariusor on Saturday February 11, 2023 @03:19AM (#34750573)

> You are 100% wrong in your analysis, metrics have shown over and over again that people didn't use XUL addons (even if you add the people disabling telemetry).

And yet, the anecedata here on HN suggests that you are probably surrounded of those people that did use them. Deciding that suddenly the longstanding demographic of Firefox users - tech people - are no longer relevant to the company strategy was a shitty move, and it drove them away.

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Re:Why Did Mozilla Remove XUL Add-Ons? (2020) by Timshel on Saturday February 11, 2023 @04:21AM (#34750804)

I did use them and transition was way smoother than I feared.

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Re:Why Did Mozilla Remove XUL Add-Ons? (2020) by Silhouette on Saturday February 11, 2023 @11:18AM (#34753636)

I did use a few of them and I am still irritated every time I run Firefox that some simple things don't (and AIUI can't) work any more. At least real ad blocking still works and they're probably not foolish enough to change that. And there are still some significant privacy advantages without the old plugins like having the option for separate search and location bars.

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Re:Why Did Mozilla Remove XUL Add-Ons? (2020) by brokenmachine on Sunday February 12, 2023 @06:59PM (#34768534)

I still miss Tab mix plus.

I am aware there is some mucking around that I could perform to maybe get it working, but it probably involves changing some settings that I'm not sure I should.

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