So far I haven't been able to find any piece of rationale behind https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1199718 getting WONTFIXed. And that's weird, because there has to be an enormous reason to justify its scrapping. WebExtensions made perfect sense to me until this happened: - Most extensions won't use it, would be easy to sign and won't break with FF updates. - Small percentage of extensions will make use of it to do the special things.
Ability of addons to modify browser UI code is the defining feature of FireFox. Considering that Mozilla evidently lags far behind Chrome in manpower and resources, there's very little FF can do to compete if this feature is lost. It will lose most of "must-have" addons that power users of FF can't live without and that make people use FF rather than Chrome, like those made by Quicksaver: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2016/11/23/add-ons-in-2017/ So, again, this is a "life and death" kind of issue for FireFox and there must be a "life and death" reason for scrapping native.js. What is it? _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
