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0 pointsdman7y ago0 comments

Firefox lost me with the whole XUL fiasco. Breaking peoples workflows before they had a credible alternative lined up was highly unprofessional. I was an enthusiastic Firefox user until the XUL retirement.

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scrollaway7y ago· 2 in thread

Dropping XUL was necessary and if anything, should have been done earlier. I disagree they didn't "have a credible alternative lined up".

Are you upset over extensions breaking? There was a long, extremely long deprecation period and afaik Mozilla helped addon authors move over. They had to make the cut at some point, tbh.

protomyth7y ago

Are you upset over extensions breaking? There was a long, extremely long deprecation period and afaik Mozilla helped addon authors move over.

Which didn't include 100% replacement APIs. A long period doesn't help if the new thing doesn't actually replace the old thing.

dmanOP7y ago

I wrote some extensions myself over the years, all my time writing those extensions went down the drain.

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