Firefox add-ons that use the XUL overlay system would need to be written as SDK style add-ons.

Addons that use XUL would need a rewrite, but they already did, as Firefox Mobile doesn't support XUL.

(Plugins need to just go away, and they mostly have.)

Plugins are the only reason I use Firefox over any other browser.

Can you explain to me why Firefox would be better off if I didn't have Rikaisama for my Japanese studying or one of a number of Youtube plugins that make the site bearable again by forcing annotations off and 1080p on.

You are misunderstanding the language being used.

Add-ons are brower extensions like the examples you provide.

Plug-ins are Flash, Silverlight, Unity Web Player, and the Java plug-in.

Only the going away of the latter is being called for.

> Rikaisama

This is most likely an addon, a Firefox extension written in (mostly) JS and XUL. Plugins are the external runtimes embedded in browsers with NSAPI &al: Flash, Java, Silverlight, etc...

Can't reply, but the annotations off plugin is called "YouTube - Disable Annotations" by notsie

Awesome, thanks!

Edit: eek, looks like it's been removed by the author :( https://addons.mozilla.org/EN-US/firefox/addon/youtube-disab...

>forcing annotations off

Please share this miracle you speak of.

a lot of modern firefox plugins are already written this way, but there are probably a significant amount of legacy addons that would need to be rewritten