Writing Extensions for Firefox Is Barely Worth the Trouble

Re:Writing Extensions for Firefox Is Barely Worth the Trouble by passfree on Monday September 08, 2014 @01:44PM (#8286133)

I have also experienced this sad situation with Firefox. XUL was my biggest disappointment because mozilla was not willing to invest any time to make it better. Instead they shipped this monstrosity called addon-sdk. You need python to develop JS applications? This is stupid.

I would love to see firefox converging with NodeJS but given mozilla's attitude towards developers lately I seriously doubt that it will ever happen.

Firefox has a very rich history and the technology is fantastic but sadly it is not made to be easy to the developer.

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Re:Writing Extensions for Firefox Is Barely Worth the Trouble by anaran on Monday September 08, 2014 @02:24PM (#8286346)

Paul already pointed you to nodejs based jpm, which will fully replace cfx soon.

Another great thing with the addon-sdk is it works with Firefox for Android as well (with some limitations).

Does Chrome for Android even have extensions yet?

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Re:Writing Extensions for Firefox Is Barely Worth the Trouble by smacktoward on Monday September 08, 2014 @03:10PM (#8286579)

> Firefox has a very rich history and the technology is fantastic but sadly it is not made to be easy to the developer.

Believe it or not, all those technologies used to be fantastically developer-friendly, compared to the alternatives. It's just that over the last 15 years the alternatives have gotten friendlier faster than Firefox has.

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Re:Writing Extensions for Firefox Is Barely Worth the Trouble by paulrouget on Monday September 08, 2014 @01:50PM (#8286182)

https://github.com/mozilla/jpm

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