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As I said elsewhere, I reviewed thousands of addons for addons.mozilla.org back in the day. The number of extensions which used XBL directly were just a handful, and usually by the…

I agree, it's untrue. In my opinion, most of the problems Firefox has stem from mismanagement and utter lack of vision. This has a lot to do with mozilla losing their leaders and r…

>I tried to work with Mozilla to get a couple minor changes made to enable some of the missing features, but that went nowhere fast. Yeah, unless you actually write the code, there…

I (Nils) am the maintainer, and I would more characterize it as slumbering, not entirely abandoned or dead. I keep meaning to fix bugs and make new releases, but as we all know the…

I (Nils) was the maintainer of it for many years at the point already, and I was genuinely considering to let it die for quite a while. I was furious at what mozilla did to the loy…

Hi Stefano, Nils here, long time no see. Yeah, it was 2006 when I joined you and Federico, if I remember correctly, while you and Federico started DownThemAll! in 2004. #201 is cor…

I volunteered massive amounts of my time for mozilla for more than a decade now, not only developing. I do not consider my previous statement rushed, but a realistic prediction bas…

From Nils Maier, developer of some of the most complex and most popular extensions, DownThemAll! (+ MinTrayR): Read my comments That comment by Giorgio (nice guy btw, shared a room…

I get this conclusion from over a decade of add-on development, and many years of volunteering my time to/for mozilla in various capacities incl helping other add-on developers, re…

The current Firefox UI is XUL and XBL, tons and heaps of it. Re-implementing it in e.g. HTML is not an easy task, in particular not when you also want the result to look at least s…

Sorry, but that is just wrong, Certain types of APIs are infeasible to provide, because mozilla is too time and resource constrained to invest major resources into spec'ing, implem…

They are trying I guess, and may succeed for a bunch of use cases to bring what's required. But certainly not all. Even the add-ons that can be somewhat reasonably be ported will h…

Firefox always broke stuff, since the very beginning. Mayor stuff, sometimes for no good reason, sometimes for very good reasons. Add-on developers learned to deal with it. A lot o…

I am the DownThemAll! developer. The statement is still current. I communicated to the mozilla people who got in touch with me that there will not be a crippled DownThemAll!, at le…

I am the DownThemAll! developer. First and foremost it's technical limitations, other than that it's also time.

So repeating it makes it more true, eh? >Reaching into content windows is forbidden [modulo CPOWs] in multiprocess Firefox. It is not forbidden, it is just different, using frame s…

Thanks for implying I'm in it for the money without even knowing me. Nice ad hominem you got there. Let's just say that the donations do not nearly cover the time I spend developin…

>Electrolysis apparently breaks XUL extensions. This is wrong. It absolutely does not break XUL extensions per-se. Add-ons will require some (moderate for most add-ons) changes whe…

Yeah, and the not-so-popular add-ons can screw themselves, I guess. Your add-on only has 10.000 users? 200 users? uhhh... Sorry, priorities. Then again, actually look at the vimper…

Since you're addressing my comment there: I don't think I'm overly pessimistic. Apart from having been in the game since mozilla suite and having experienced a LOT of things that d…