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You answered your own question. It doesn't effect FF.
But, I do agree they should use the downgrade in functionality of V3 as a point for advertising FF.
What good would advertising "Still supporting Manifest V2" do for your average user? They also wouldn't want to openly advertise that "Your ad block still works with us".
Most sane take in this whole thread.
Some of y'all get a little conspiratorial.
That is literally the premise of the article
Don't they get like 90% of their money from Google?
Yes.
that's also probably a factor in why they don't say anything, big moneypants might say something
No, big moneypants is getting sued for monopoly practices, which means Mozilla's search revenue may dry up. I'm guessing they don't want to ruin their chances with a competitor should they need to find another search partner.
sure, that's also probably a factor in why they don't say anything, new big moneypants might say something
Didn't they remove XUL extensions to make their extension interface compatible with inferior chrome web extensions?
I just did a quick online search and it seems like the reason for removing that was that it was way too much work to maintain and stopped them from implementing performance improvements for Firefox. Apparently it was also a lot of work for extension developers, since they had to update their extensions constantly.
That's just what I read tho, I wasn't there when XUL extensions where still a thing.
i wouldn’t say inferior… mozilla extensions were more performant and flexible, web extensions (ie the initial chrome format - now a standard that most browsers use) are easier to develop, and thus there were a lot more of them