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		vernie on May 30, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome exten... Firefox lost its only advantage when it deprecated its more powerful extension APIs in favor of WebExtensions.

ubercow13 on May 30, 2019 | [–]

So I guess now that Google has gimped Chrome's extension API, it has regained that advantage.

behnamoh on May 30, 2019 | [–]

Speaking of extensions, I really miss FireBug in FF. The new "inspect element" tool lacks some very important features like easy XPATH finding/defining which are critical for web scraping.

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