You may call me Nils
As I said elsewhere, I reviewed thousands of addons for addons.mozilla.org back in the day. The number of extensions which used XBL directly were just a handful, and usually by the most capable developers. I have no…
I agree, it's untrue. In my opinion, most of the problems Firefox has stem from mismanagement and utter lack of vision. This has a lot to do with mozilla losing their leaders and rock star devs at a rapid pace in the…
>I tried to work with Mozilla to get a couple minor changes made to enable some of the missing features, but that went nowhere fast. Yeah, unless you actually write the code, there is no way. And writing code for the…
I (Nils) am the maintainer, and I would more characterize it as slumbering, not entirely abandoned or dead. I keep meaning to fix bugs and make new releases, but as we all know the last two years have been a bit crazy…
I (Nils) was the maintainer of it for many years at the point already, and I was genuinely considering to let it die for quite a while. I was furious at what mozilla did to the loyal and active extension community and…
Hi Stefano, Nils here, long time no see. Yeah, it was 2006 when I joined you and Federico, if I remember correctly, while you and Federico started DownThemAll! in 2004. #201 is correct :D 2006 was really a long time…
I volunteered massive amounts of my time for mozilla for more than a decade now, not only developing. I do not consider my previous statement rushed, but a realistic prediction based in a decent foundation of experience…
From Nils Maier, developer of some of the most complex and most popular extensions, DownThemAll! (+ MinTrayR): Read my comments That comment by Giorgio (nice guy btw, shared a room with him on at a couple of mozilla…
I get this conclusion from over a decade of add-on development, and many years of volunteering my time to/for mozilla in various capacities incl helping other add-on developers, reviewing add-ons for AMO, fixing bugs…
The current Firefox UI is XUL and XBL, tons and heaps of it. Re-implementing it in e.g. HTML is not an easy task, in particular not when you also want the result to look at least somewhat OS-native (took XUL itself ages…
Sorry, but that is just wrong, Certain types of APIs are infeasible to provide, because mozilla is too time and resource constrained to invest major resources into spec'ing, implementing and maintaining "niche" APIs. So…
They are trying I guess, and may succeed for a bunch of use cases to bring what's required. But certainly not all. Even the add-ons that can be somewhat reasonably be ported will have to deal with limitations, and I…
Firefox always broke stuff, since the very beginning. Mayor stuff, sometimes for no good reason, sometimes for very good reasons. Add-on developers learned to deal with it. A lot of add-on developers now have an…
I am the DownThemAll! developer. The statement is still current. I communicated to the mozilla people who got in touch with me that there will not be a crippled DownThemAll!, at least not from me.
I am the DownThemAll! developer. First and foremost it's technical limitations, other than that it's also time.
So repeating it makes it more true, eh? >Reaching into content windows is forbidden [modulo CPOWs] in multiprocess Firefox. It is not forbidden, it is just different, using frame scripts or CPOWs. >That alone is going…
Thanks for implying I'm in it for the money without even knowing me. Nice ad hominem you got there. Let's just say that the donations do not nearly cover the time I spend developing add-ons, helping other add-on…
>Electrolysis apparently breaks XUL extensions. This is wrong. It absolutely does not break XUL extensions per-se. Add-ons will require some (moderate for most add-ons) changes when accessing out-of-process web content.…
Yeah, and the not-so-popular add-ons can screw themselves, I guess. Your add-on only has 10.000 users? 200 users? uhhh... Sorry, priorities. Then again, actually look at the vimperator or pentadactyl code... That code…
Since you're addressing my comment there: I don't think I'm overly pessimistic. Apart from having been in the game since mozilla suite and having experienced a LOT of things that didn't turn out so well, to say the…
As I said elsewhere, I reviewed thousands of addons for addons.mozilla.org back in the day. The number of extensions which used XBL directly were just a handful, and usually by the most capable developers. I have no…
I agree, it's untrue. In my opinion, most of the problems Firefox has stem from mismanagement and utter lack of vision. This has a lot to do with mozilla losing their leaders and rock star devs at a rapid pace in the…
>I tried to work with Mozilla to get a couple minor changes made to enable some of the missing features, but that went nowhere fast. Yeah, unless you actually write the code, there is no way. And writing code for the…
I (Nils) am the maintainer, and I would more characterize it as slumbering, not entirely abandoned or dead. I keep meaning to fix bugs and make new releases, but as we all know the last two years have been a bit crazy…
I (Nils) was the maintainer of it for many years at the point already, and I was genuinely considering to let it die for quite a while. I was furious at what mozilla did to the loyal and active extension community and…
Hi Stefano, Nils here, long time no see. Yeah, it was 2006 when I joined you and Federico, if I remember correctly, while you and Federico started DownThemAll! in 2004. #201 is correct :D 2006 was really a long time…
I volunteered massive amounts of my time for mozilla for more than a decade now, not only developing. I do not consider my previous statement rushed, but a realistic prediction based in a decent foundation of experience…
From Nils Maier, developer of some of the most complex and most popular extensions, DownThemAll! (+ MinTrayR): Read my comments That comment by Giorgio (nice guy btw, shared a room with him on at a couple of mozilla…
I get this conclusion from over a decade of add-on development, and many years of volunteering my time to/for mozilla in various capacities incl helping other add-on developers, reviewing add-ons for AMO, fixing bugs…
The current Firefox UI is XUL and XBL, tons and heaps of it. Re-implementing it in e.g. HTML is not an easy task, in particular not when you also want the result to look at least somewhat OS-native (took XUL itself ages…
Sorry, but that is just wrong, Certain types of APIs are infeasible to provide, because mozilla is too time and resource constrained to invest major resources into spec'ing, implementing and maintaining "niche" APIs. So…
They are trying I guess, and may succeed for a bunch of use cases to bring what's required. But certainly not all. Even the add-ons that can be somewhat reasonably be ported will have to deal with limitations, and I…
Firefox always broke stuff, since the very beginning. Mayor stuff, sometimes for no good reason, sometimes for very good reasons. Add-on developers learned to deal with it. A lot of add-on developers now have an…
I am the DownThemAll! developer. The statement is still current. I communicated to the mozilla people who got in touch with me that there will not be a crippled DownThemAll!, at least not from me.
I am the DownThemAll! developer. First and foremost it's technical limitations, other than that it's also time.
So repeating it makes it more true, eh? >Reaching into content windows is forbidden [modulo CPOWs] in multiprocess Firefox. It is not forbidden, it is just different, using frame scripts or CPOWs. >That alone is going…
Thanks for implying I'm in it for the money without even knowing me. Nice ad hominem you got there. Let's just say that the donations do not nearly cover the time I spend developing add-ons, helping other add-on…
>Electrolysis apparently breaks XUL extensions. This is wrong. It absolutely does not break XUL extensions per-se. Add-ons will require some (moderate for most add-ons) changes when accessing out-of-process web content.…
Yeah, and the not-so-popular add-ons can screw themselves, I guess. Your add-on only has 10.000 users? 200 users? uhhh... Sorry, priorities. Then again, actually look at the vimperator or pentadactyl code... That code…
Since you're addressing my comment there: I don't think I'm overly pessimistic. Apart from having been in the game since mozilla suite and having experienced a LOT of things that didn't turn out so well, to say the…