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We pitted Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Microsoft Edge against one another to pick the best browsers for 2023. Want something different? We have alternatives too.

TL;DR: Firefox used to have a great extension mechanism based on the XUL and XPCOM. This mechanism served us well for a long time. However, it came at an ever-growing cost in terms of maintenance for both Firefox developers and add-on developers. On one side, this growing cost progressively killed any effort to make Firefox secure, fast or to try new things. On the other side, this growing cost progressively killed the community of add-on developers. Eventually, after spending years trying to pr...

Most websites and web applications are written in JavaScript, or at least something that is converted to JavaScript. There have been many attempts over the years to change that, but don’t expect JavaScript to completely go away anytime soon.

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But use of Firefox continues to dwindle as Chrome dominates the browser world.

Find Toolbars highlight mode should show matches next to or on top of scrollbar Categories Toolkit The Mozilla Toolkit is a set of APIs, built on top of Gecko, which provide advanced services to XUL applications. These services include Profile Management, Chrome Registration, Browsing History, Extension and Theme Management, Application Update Service, and Safe Mode. (More info) User Story 17 years ago User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0...