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minus-squareRailcar8095@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoI guess extension developers will slowly stop, unless extremely hampered. Will there be many extensions with active development that still use V2? Either they focus on Firefox or they have two versions. At that point, why not make ublock part of Firefox, like brave did?
minus-squarejennraeross@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoI think Firefox will support both v2 and v3 extensions, so devs can use whichever makes more sense for their project. It has been a while since I looked into it though.
I guess extension developers will slowly stop, unless extremely hampered.
Will there be many extensions with active development that still use V2? Either they focus on Firefox or they have two versions.
At that point, why not make ublock part of Firefox, like brave did?
I think Firefox will support both v2 and v3 extensions, so devs can use whichever makes more sense for their project. It has been a while since I looked into it though.