I feel that Firefox will soon have a revival of sorts. The recent
youtube anti-adblock shenanigans have shined a light on the usefulness
and ubiquity of adblockers but also has reminded people that google
plans to arbitrarily set limits on the next generation of chrome
extensions that are really only there to halt adblockers.
It's really quite transparent. Firefox intends to support the exact
same extension technology except they won't implement the arbitrary
limits that google will.
It's like HUH? if firefox can implement the new extension standard
without limits, surely google can as well. But they choose not to
and we all know why. Cause they want that sweet sweet ad cash.
I've been a die hard mozilla user since it was opensourced. Yes I
used the Mozilla suite back in the day. Even back then we knew that
the old XUL extensions were a killer feature of mozilla and then
firefox.
While I don't expect that we return to the heady 2004 days of
firefox 1.0, I do expect that more people will give firefox a try
while they search for the most powerful adblock extension.
