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Ok. Just culled ~20,000 of 25,000 #tumblr posts accumulated via #RSS over a month. I've gotta get to work on my own project applying basic statistics to this stuff. Think "reverse chronological + $all_your_own_filtering_and_sorting_and_bucketing". Not sure if I should do that within the confines of a #thunderbird add-on, or try some other approach. I really, really want to be able to use #sql for this stuff. It's a natural fit. But #sqlite seems to be a no-go for #WebExtensions. There is only #IndexedDB, which, in my limited experience with it, is absolute garbage to work with.

🎉 Oh joy, another tool to make your browser do things it was never meant to do! 🤖 Now you can automate the thrilling life of filling forms with the same enthusiasm you reserve for hitting “install” on boring extensions. Look out, world—AI is here to make surfing the web as exciting as watching paint dry, just with a lot more technical jargon! 🚀
browsermcp.io/ #browserautomation #AItools #webextensions #techhumor #digitallife #HackerNews #ngated

browsermcp.ioBrowser MCP - Automate your browser with AIBrowser MCP connects AI applications to your browser so you can automate tasks using AI. Supported by Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, and more.

Let’s just say there’s a reason #PaleMoon has never adopted the idea of signing add-ons…

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1468274

Also equating “cool customisation” to “security risk” as well as downplaying the transition from #XUL to #WebExtensions as one of making add-ons “more secure” (which is questionable because there are a lot more malware in the #Firefox add-ons site now than back in the XUL era) instead of making them less powerful is really Orwellian and shows how #Mozilla has cared less and less about what made their browser obviously unique and different from the competition (which struggled in making their browsers customizable and extensible). A betrayal of the power users who believed in the power and future of what they’ve built; the same users who helped spread Firefox to the point it looked like it was unstoppable in being the browser who will crush MSIE once and for all! Until Chrome came and Mozilla tried imitating it…

support.mozilla.orgFirefox Root Certificate Expiration: Questions & Tips for Updating | Firefox Support Forum | Mozilla Support

If you're attending FOSDEM and are interested in browser extensions, @mozillaofficial has a couple of events you should check out!

WebExtensions BoF – let’s chat about your experiences building and using extensions
fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event

State of Firefox Add-ons – Join me for a review of recent changes in Firefox and a peak at what's to come
fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event

fosdem.orgFOSDEM 2025 - WebExtensions BoF

🚨 PSA for folks building #webextensions 🚨

If you're building a Manifest V3 extension, you can have a single manifest.json file that works in all browsers!

```json
{
"name": "Demo",
"version": "1.0",
"manifest_version": 3,
"background": {
"scripts": ["bg.js"],
"service_worker": "bg.js"
}
}
```

This will use the same background script in all browsers. In Chrome it will load as a service worker while in Firefox and Safari it will load as an event page