its highly debatable the change will keep them competitive. what it is doing is making Firefox MORE LIKE most every other browser. So WHY bother with it?
FF is/was used because of the flexibility of its add-on architecture. It thrived on add-ons. Its add-ons, month by month, become harder to run. Its losing users who ask themselves: Why bother? IMO its shot itself in the foot and will continue to decline because it THREW OUT ITS BABY. Best wishes Josiah On Monday, 24 April 2017 13:49:58 UTC+2, RichardWilliamSmith wrote: > > If anyone's interested in why Firefox is making this change, this comment > on Hacker News is the best explanation I've come across. > > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13676488 > > Basically, they have to do it in order to stay competitive. > > Regards, > Richard > > On Sunday, April 23, 2017 at 6:48:39 AM UTC+10, Mark S. wrote: >> >> One of the arguments for the change in plugins is that webextensions will >> allow sharing of code between FF, IE, and Chrome. >> >> So.....does that mean there will soon be an official TiddlyChrome and >> TiddlyExplorer ? >> >> Personally, abandoning 1000s of much-loved plugins in order to make a >> browser THE SAME AS other browsers is a recipe for annihilation for FF. >> >> Mark >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/4048e4f8-6337-4b27-87e9-77e57b7fcbe2%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
