Wait.. wasn't the a good chunk of the "webextension" transition to allow better interoperability?
After some time, it looks to me as if no real change has happened. The webextension model is still too weak in several areas to allow for some old extensions to function properly (keyboard handling is a major, major PITA), and at the same time a lot of work is still being spent to support cross-browser (and to a lesser extent, cross-version) functionality.
Forward-compatibility on the same browser seems to be the only good point, until you realize it's also how chrome can pull the plug on request filters and kill extensions on a whim anyway.
I didn't even know you needed mozilla's blessing for extensions on android. Not so different than Chrome here, Mozilla. Not at all. First, the useless signing requirement, then this? :(
After some time, it looks to me as if no real change has happened. The webextension model is still too weak in several areas to allow for some old extensions to function properly (keyboard handling is a major, major PITA), and at the same time a lot of work is still being spent to support cross-browser (and to a lesser extent, cross-version) functionality.
Forward-compatibility on the same browser seems to be the only good point, until you realize it's also how chrome can pull the plug on request filters and kill extensions on a whim anyway.
I didn't even know you needed mozilla's blessing for extensions on android. Not so different than Chrome here, Mozilla. Not at all. First, the useless signing requirement, then this? :(