On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 5:40 PM, James Hugman <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm happy that we're going to be enabling easy translation of addons from
> Chrome to Firefox. Without much to go on, I'd hazard a guess that this is
> a) not actual parity with the Chrome APIs, and b) most of what we want from
> Chrome is the most well used subset of the API, which is actually fairly
> small (e.g. content-scripts).
>

You can read more about it here:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Browser_Extensions


> Much of what I am proposing of extensions/extension points is an object in
> the existing manifest to cleanup the various barnacles that Chrome's format
> has picked up over the years: omnibox, file_*, chrome_*_overrides, storage
> attributes are the most obvious examples.
>

I'm very curious to hear criticisms of Chrome's API. Can you elaborate
here? I don't know what most of those things are.

-Bill
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