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0 pointsYgg23y ago0 comments

Ah, the extinguish phase, of EEE.

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Firefox did them a favor by trashing the extension ecosystem that had put the pressure on Google in the first place.

Ygg2OP3y ago

Firefox did it because of security/performance concerns. Being able to customize UI doesn't lend itself to easy refactoring.

In order to compete with Chrome most of XUL extensions had to go.

Hyrum's law in practice.

> Firefox did it because of security/performance concerns

Isn't that the same concerns used in pushing Mv3?

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