Firefox Moves Away From XUL-based Addons In Favor Of WebExtentions
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Solved by colonel_mortis,
Good news: In the Mozilla WebExtensions wiki, they state that they are planning to add some features that chrome doesn't support in its extensions. Specifically:
We plan to add our own APIs based on the needs of existing Firefox add-ons.
- NoScript-type functionality. This would come in the form of extensions to webRequest and possibly contentSettings.
- Sidebars. Opera already supports sidebar functionality; Chrome may soon. We would like to be able to implement Tree Style Tabs or Vertical Tabs by hiding the tab strip and showing a tab sidebar.
- Toolbars. Firefox has a lot of existing toolbar add-ons.
- Better keyboard shortcut support. We'd like to support Vimperator-type functionality. (@alpenwasser)
- Ability to add tabs to about:addons.
- Ability to modify the tab strip (Tab Mix Plus).
- Ability to take images of frames/tabs (like canvas.drawWindow)
So most existing firefox extensions can probably be ported to WebExtensions, with only some particularly deeply hooking, unusual extensions not being supported. Hopefully.
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