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		kalid on Aug 31, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chrome's Most Important Feature This is the tail wagging the dog. The plugins are going to be broken whether the update from 3 to 4 happens manually or automatically (and, if anything, discourages manual updating despite all the popups). Windows has had binary compatibility for decades. Why not just version the internal browser API? (Extension XYZ was built against FireFox 3.6).

eurleif on Sept 1, 2011 [–]

>Windows has had binary compatibility for decades.

Extensions don't just run on top of Firefox, though; they modify Firefox's UI in arbitrary ways.

>Why not just version the internal browser API?

Firefox already does this, and automatically disables incompatible extensions.

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