The Future of Developing Firefox Add-ons

[barbaz]

i think its Good bro.

Care to be more specific, or are you only here to spam?

[barbaz]

What sorts of existing extensions will not be possible to port, exactly?
And if these are not (all) malicious extensions, why can't WebExtensions provide the needed functionality?

I think this answers my questions -
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=14727102#p14727102
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1328244

[Thrawn]

I think the problem is visible in Mozilla's own statement:

WebExtensions are decoupled from the platform

Now, in most spheres of programming, loose coupling is generally assumed to be a positive, and indeed it does make development easier.

However, the whole point of many extensions is to radically alter the platform. Which is obviously impossible with a loosely-coupled approach.

In the past, if you wanted something different to everyone else, the answer was: Write an extension to do it. Now, it seems, the answer is: Too bad, you can't have it.