• Railcar8095@lemm.ee
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      5 months ago

      I guess extension developers will slowly stop, unless extremely hampered.

      Will there be many extensions with active development that still use V2? Either they focus on Firefox or they have two versions.

      At that point, why not make ublock part of Firefox, like brave did?

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          5 months ago

          Unless it’s literally no effort to maintain extensions that use both, a large portion of maintainers will develop what has the largest market share. Sure for uBlock Origin, there’s enough momentum to maintain a v2 version for Firefox, but for a new extension with one developer, it’s unlikely that they’d make two versions.

          Either this backfires, and Firefox ends up having the better extensions using v2 manifest, or new extensions will be developed with the limitations of v3 and Firefox users will have an unnecessarily neutered experience as Chrome users.

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          5 months ago

          It’s more work and will create different set of features.

          So no, not crazy, but really inconvenient and for a very limited amount of users

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        5 months ago

        I think Firefox will support both v2 and v3 extensions, so devs can use whichever makes more sense for their project. It has been a while since I looked into it though.

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          5 months ago

          For the time being, yes, they will support both. But V2 will only work on Firefox (and forks) and I think brave, a very small percentage of users.

          So given that it will be like supporting two different extensions, I assume most extension developers will just switch to v3.

          How long after most extensions are v3 until Firefox drops/stops supporting is anybodies guess.

          It’s actually a great example of how chromes dominant position is screwing other browsers