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Emilio Cobos
Personal blog · crisal.io/wordsprogrammingsystemsweb
Emilio Cobos's personal blog at crisal.io covers programming, systems and web. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “XUL Layout has been removed from Firefox”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Emilio Cobos's writing on Firefox internals, including the Manifest V2 phase-out and LegacyFox, a shim that loaded old-style extension manifests with unrestricted internal access.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- XUL Layout has been removed from Firefox3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-03-30
What Hacker News says?
> and you can see it in its comments I don’t see any comments on that article? —⁂— You’re missing the picture. All that LegacyFox looks to do is allow loading old-style extension manifests, by converting them to new-style, just with the difference that they’re given unfettered access to internals. This allows you to load the extensions, but doesn’t guarantee that they will work. By the end of 2019, XUL Templates, XU…
Comment linking /words/2023/03/30/xul-layout-is-gone.html
on “Manifest V2 phase-out begins”Submitted XUL Layout has been removed from Firefox as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted FFI patterns #1 – Complex Rust data structures exposed seamlessly to C++ as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Focus changes landing in Firefox 78 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted XUL Layout Is Gone as a story · 1 points
HN discussion