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I agree, and that mechanism is to introduce a new, permissioned API into Firefox's Web Extension API implementation.

Requiring them to maintain two completely different extension APIs (the old XUL-based one and Web Extensions) would work too but seems excessive.

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> I agree, and that mechanism is to introduce a new, permissioned API into Firefox's Web Extension API implementation.

The problem is new WebExtensions APIs are not welcome.

If XUL were to continue as it does on Pale Moon, here is no need for Web Extensions given they are a reduced subset in terms of functionality compared to the previous XUL/XPCOM versions.

And ironically for all the talk of making it more secure, the amount of cross browser malware has only shot up since Mozilla decided to dump XUL in favor of copying Chrome's extension system.

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