> Firefox extensions aren't something worth working on any more.
Unfortunately I now totally share this sentiment, I had an extension that delayed page loads in a realistic way to test slower connections. I started on back when XUL was the way to do it but dealing with the churn led me to give up. When XUL was being deprecated I ported to the newer way but I could tell that the churn was starting to get annoying and that my enthusiasm had changed. As much as I would have liked to continue work with that extension with the recent changes I'm glad I gave up when I did.
I'd really like to see something change to make working on extensions feel like it's more worthwhile again. Do people think that things are likely to stabilize in the next few years?
Browser extensions are probably going to go away, at least in Chrome. Google needs to control ad blocking. They've never been a big thing on the Chrome side anyway. Firefox is down to 8.61% market share worldwide.
As Google removes user control, they can make Firefox go along, since they're Mozilla's biggest revenue source.
Unfortunately I now totally share this sentiment, I had an extension that delayed page loads in a realistic way to test slower connections. I started on back when XUL was the way to do it but dealing with the churn led me to give up. When XUL was being deprecated I ported to the newer way but I could tell that the churn was starting to get annoying and that my enthusiasm had changed. As much as I would have liked to continue work with that extension with the recent changes I'm glad I gave up when I did.
I'd really like to see something change to make working on extensions feel like it's more worthwhile again. Do people think that things are likely to stabilize in the next few years?