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What'll happen to amazing addons like pentadactyl and vimperator? These are vastly more useful than their Chrome/Chromium counterparts.


They're completely broken. Vimperator has an issue on github about getting e10s support but it looks like with these changes it doesn't matter Firefox will permanently break or cripple them.


They'll probably be less broken, with a proper API: https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions#Additional_APIs

That kind of keyboard permission could be used for keyloggers though, it's not something every extension should get.




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