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Web Extension API Will Kill Thousands Of Firefox Add Ons
Posted by Tsing
This is very bad news for Firefox users like myself who enjoy the browser for its vast library of add-ons, which tend to provide far more functionality than Chrome’s simplistic extensions. Some of the staples that will be broken include NoScript, Tab Mix Plus, and my favorite download manager, DownThemAll!. I think this is a terrible mistake that doesn’t benefit Firefox developers one bit, and people seem to agree.
This is very bad news for Firefox users like myself who enjoy the browser for its vast library of add-ons, which tend to provide far more functionality than Chrome’s simplistic extensions. Some of the staples that will be broken include NoScript, Tab Mix Plus, and my favorite download manager, DownThemAll!. I think this is a terrible mistake that doesn’t benefit Firefox developers one bit, and people seem to agree.
Firefox add-on developers need to rewrite their add-ons, while Chrome developers can easily port their extensions to Firefox browser with small changes to their code. Who’s benefiting here Chrome developers. This is a huge change, their market share can further decline and Firefox may lose all its loyal users using because of popular add-ons which may not work with the new WebExtensions API.