![]() It is worth noting that Web Extensions are necessarily less powerful than the classic Firefox extensions, even though many shortcomings can probably be addressed. The lack of interest from Google isn’t the only issue here so far the implementation of Web Extensions in Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge shows very significant differences as well. It isn’t obvious at this point how Web Extensions will develop. Why should they be, if they already established themselves as an extension market leader and made everybody copy their approach. And Google? Well, they aren’t interested. Mozilla and Microsoft are pursuing standardization of Web Extensions based on Google Chrome APIs. The goal is writing extensions in such a way that they could run on any browser without any or only with minimal modifications. ![]() Brace for impact! What are Web Extensions?Īt some point, Web Extensions are supposed to become a new standard for creating browser extensions. TL DR: Sometime in autumn this year the current Adblock Plus for Firefox extension is going to be replaced by another, which is more similar to Adblock Plus for Chrome. Adblock Plus and (a little) more The plan towards offering Adblock Plus for Firefox as a Web Extension ![]()
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