Another blow for users that coming November cannot use their add-ons on Firefox like they were used to,
because Firefox will adopt a new api engine.
ABP gonna take on the functionality of their Chrome extension and will be graded back as Firefox development have decided to go on using WebExtensions api's that will be supported by all the major browsers (Chrome, Opera and Microsoft Edge extensions will run in Firefox as WebExtension). More browser mono-culture coming our way, neither more safe nor more secure.
All the work of the old extension developers gone down the drain coming November. I predict the total demise of the firefox browser by then. Will this spell out the end for extensions like NoScript and RequestPolicy as we have come to know them. Will we have to install uBlock Origin Websocket, uBlock Origin, uMatrix into firefox with WebExtension? Will we be without NoScript, Request Policy?
Will this remain as the only fork of Mozilla's Firefox as it once was originally meant to be a Privacybrowser of choice? Re:
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2016/11/17/introducing-firefox-focus-a-free-fast-and-easy-to-use-private-browser-for-ios/Do we have to look out for browsers like Blaze, Iridium, Epic Privacy Browser. Another question: What will this mean for firefox as underlying browser for the tor-browser?
Will this mean we are left with one upcoming Big Monoculture with less and less privacy protection and tweakability against scripts and ads etc.
Sad days for all those that gave their best to make browsers like Flock, Firefox of old, etc.
Do the Big Data Peddlers now own us all and will all resistence soon be broken? polonus
