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Thunderbird too

Posted Nov 11, 2011 15:36 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Thunderbird too by kripkenstein
Parent article: Firefox 8 released

However, Chrome has a proper extensions API, so version number changes almost never break extensions.

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Thunderbird too

Posted Nov 11, 2011 22:15 UTC (Fri) by kripkenstein (guest, #43281) [Link]

Yes, Chrome's extension API is simpler and less susceptible to breakage when there is an update. (Firefox has jetpack addons which are similar, but they aren't used much yet.)

But websites can and do break with Chrome and Firefox updates. There is no way around that. So to not use a major version number would be misleading.

Thunderbird too

Posted Nov 12, 2011 15:35 UTC (Sat) by gerv (guest, #3376) [Link] (1 responses)

The downside of which, of course, is that extensions can't do nearly as much in Chrome as they can in Firefox. They can only do what the Chrome developers allowed for in their API.

Gerv

Thunderbird too

Posted Nov 12, 2011 16:56 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

One simple extension that always works is worth a hundred cool ones that can break at any time because of an update including security fixes that you *have* to do. Maybe I am showing myself to not be a cool cat by valuing stability and security above whizbang, but so be it.


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