Firefox Is Going to Support Chrome Extensions

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The current title, "Firefox Is Going to Support Chrome Extensions", is neither the headline nor the subject of the page; Chrome isn't mentioned. The title is simply "WebExtensions" and it's Mozilla's wiki page on the subject.

"WebExtensions documentation" would be accurate and informative.

Chrome is mentioned many times on that page:

> Namespacing

> At this time, all APIs are accessible through the chrome.* namespace. When we begin to add our own APIs, we expect to add them to the browser.* namespace. Developers will be able to use feature detection to determine if an API is available in browser.*.

> See https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/manifest for a complete list of manifest directives. Of these, we currently support the following:

Searching the page for "Chrome" returns 3 results. One is a namespace's name, another is part of a URL, and the third is a short mention of a planned feature for Chrome.

While I was technically wrong, I think my point stands.

then what becomes the reason to use FireFox?

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