marty60 wrote:That would be like DrDichotomous on Reddit. That guy is a human spam bot who relentlessly shills for Mozilla
He is also a guy who has made a serious mistake by bad-mouthing Aris here -
https://www.reddit.com/user/DrDichotomous
Anyone know of a more dedicated, hard working Firefox Extension author, now or in the past, than Aris?
Now, we, that is extension and theme authors, have known about this stuff since mid 2015,
but what will it mean to you, the 'average' user? It's a long and complicated subject (or so they would have you believe) but this is what it comes down to, in just a few sentences. -
This is what awaits you -
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/extensions
The clue is in Mozilla's term - WebExtensions - they will only do anything to content (webpages) not to chrome (the UI)
Really, you can stop reading now, if you want, because that's it. Existing Firefox extensions that do stuff to webpages may well be around for a few years, but existing Firefox extensions that do stuff to the UI, er, will not.
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Still reading? - OK, check this out -
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... momalehbom
Well, that's the Chrome alternative to Colorful Tabs, right? Wrong, read the reviews, it's changing the colours on the webpage, not the tab....and so it goes on.
Mozilla shills attempt to portray Firefox extension devs as lazy devils too idle to take on board what is on offer (and so make it seem like their fault when the stuff vanishes) What the shills are not telling you, despite mentioning the term 'APIs' over and over and over again, is this - those APIs do not exist yet, even in a test form. Even then, Mozilla are also already committed to the same 'don't touch our UI' policy, as Google Chrome and so you'll end up with this for Firefox -
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/extensions
See? Not that hard to understand what is going to happen after all, was it?
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke (attrib.)
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