Chrome extenstion in Firefox?

Say it ain't so!

[tangor]

Code from a project billed as “the future of developing add-ons” in Firefox will debut in early 2016.

The code will let extensions written for Google’s growing Chrome run, supposedly unchanged, in Firefox.

The WebExtensions API, announced in August and currently in alpha, is expected to see daylight in March 2016, with Firefox 45, Mozilla has said.

[theregister.co.uk...]

I may be shutting down my FF updates sooner than expected.

[bill]

• Firefox to adopt Chrome Add-Ons format [webmasterworld.com]
  
• Firefox is About to Become an Almost Complete Copy of Chrome [webmasterworld.com]

Yes, this was supposed to show up within this year, but now we have until March it seems. Having a plug-in standard could speed up development in other browsers and software. I certainly wouldn't want to see Chrome take over the marketplace though.

[mcneely]

I may be shutting down my FF updates sooner than expected.

I don't know that I would be jumping ship over this really -- It's not like Firefox is totally surrendering to the Gorg like Opera did .. When Firefox dumps Gecko in favor of the WebKit then I might consider deleting it from my machines.

I think that having some sort of streamlined plugin standard across the board should be the order of the day anyway -

[bill]

We still have Vivaldi, which is much less of a surrender compared to Opera. I still run Opera 12.x daily, but Vivaldi is gradually winning me over (I also use it daily). To have my trusted FF extensions run on all my browsers would be nice.

If only NoScript would run on Chromium browsers there wouldn't be too much to miss... aside from the Web Developer toolbar, !YSlow and a few others... Still no real impetus to jump ship here either.