Had they given it enough thought, they'd have pushed for replacement of XUL APIs in WebExtensions in a non-blocking way...
They have. It is not finished yet but work is underway.
I also learnes from last(?) discussion about Firefox here on HN that there is even a developer extension that you can install on nightly that will let you create your own extension api.
This is useful 1. if you are a developer that is happy with using nightly and making/copying extensions on top of your own api 2. even more useful as you can sketch out api ideas in js without touching the Firefox C++ codebase.
BTW: Manishearth who is acrive in this discussion often shares knowledge from the inside of Mozilla. If anyone are really interested then reading his comment history might be interesting.
They have. It is not finished yet but work is underway.
I also learnes from last(?) discussion about Firefox here on HN that there is even a developer extension that you can install on nightly that will let you create your own extension api.
This is useful 1. if you are a developer that is happy with using nightly and making/copying extensions on top of your own api 2. even more useful as you can sketch out api ideas in js without touching the Firefox C++ codebase.
BTW: Manishearth who is acrive in this discussion often shares knowledge from the inside of Mozilla. If anyone are really interested then reading his comment history might be interesting.