• henfredemars@infosec.pub
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    20 hours ago

    Firefox made a big mistake of breaking ad-on compatibility in the past. Let’s not make that mistake again.

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      18 hours ago

      If you’re talking about the protocol that allowed things like flash, that was the right decision and the web is much better off without it. It was a security nightmare and no functionality was lost in the long run.

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        No, I’m talking about a whole add-on ecosystem that they killed back then. Flash was always garbage. But, I remember lots of plug-ins like FasterFox just stopped working and some developers felt that porting to the newer API wasn’t worth it.