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Mozilla can contribute to Firefox 57's success by finishing all the missing WebExtensions APIs. So many extensions are going to be impossible to recreate.

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Help us! Write patches to dependencies of this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215059

Thanks for that link, now I can clearly see that from the power-user perspective WebExtensions is a dead-end. If you look at the RESOLVED WONTFIX issues linked in that bug, you will find a lot of them are rejected based on political reasons. For example: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1246706

Listen, I don't care whether features that I need don't fit the WebExtensions security model or whether they are confusing to a clueless user. If you can't support these features as part of WebExtensions, please design a separate set of APIs. Fine with me if you market extensions targeting these lower-level APIs as "dangerous, use at your own risk".

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