marty60 wrote:The last four months or so Firefox has been making a steady comeback of sorts, going from its low of 7.69% in August to 12.22% currently.
Well, that's good. Although '
being slightly less worse than some other browser' was not really the original idea in the early days of Mozilla.
Still, in other news, the APIs are now all done -
pretty much all the APIs that it makes sense to implement have been done.
http://arewewebextensionsyet.com/
Mozilla are also figuring out their fallback position, as they already know that this stuff is about as popular as a dose of the clap with Firefox extension authors. So, yes they know they all only change webpage content, yes they know that most are total crap, but this (to them) is nothing but numbers...*drumroll* ...by a Mozilla guy, I give you the new Firefox extensions -
http://mckay.pub/2016-11-18-webextensions/
By the way, something odd. In all the Mozilla discussions/blogs/more blogs/we're just like you blogs, etc. that have been droning about this post-XUL business, you see the expected perp extensions coming up. In other words, the expected Adblock/NoScript, various downloader extensions, etc. No surprise, as that is all content. But I keep seeing something else being mentioned - an extension that barely makes it into the Top 50 - Tree Style Tabs. That is a chrome (UI) extension, don't ask me what it means, but it keeps being mentioned. Whether that is to become the token UI extension to refute what we already know about their '
don't touch our UI' policy, is anyone's guess. Odd though.
Firefox will be whatever it will be. But, I will say this - if you like the idea of the Chrome browser, but don't like the 'invasive nature' of Google, then since 2008, you just go here -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_ ... browser%29
Let's just hope that Mozilla already knew that and weren't pinning their hopes on taking an anti-Google market.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke (attrib.)
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