This add-on has been given Recommended status, yet the developer was blindsided by Mozilla’s decision to reinvent the concept:
This is certainly not the right way to encourage developers to spend their time advancing Firefox if they then suddenly find themselves facing “in-house competition.”
That’s kind of a dumb complaint. Every piece of software with extensions has eventually implemented the features of the most popular extensions, that’s just kinda how it works.
uBlock Origin: 10,588,214 users
Notefox: 12,549 UsersI think it’s justified because Mozilla keeps adding random features to Firefox that can be, should be, or already are extensions. They used to understand this.
They even made their own Notes sidebar extension. They could just polish up what they already have.
Idk, I like have the features built in. Vertical tabs needed to be built in, tree style tabs just couldn’t achieve the same results. Integrated notes feature would be really nice. The fewer extensions I have installed, the fewer potential vulnerabilities.
It would be neat, I guess, but people who want an ad blocker outnumber you a thousand to one. I think that should take priority if we’re going to go down the “make an extension more secure by including it in the browser” route.
Ironically, uBlock Origin Lite also got temporarily blacklisted by Mozilla, causing the developer to drop Firefox support for it entirely.
I installed Firefox on a desktop the other day to find that I still had the old Firefox Notes extension installed. Point being, different people make different extensions, some die, others live.
