You might soon be able to run Chrome extensions in Firefox
Mozilla is changing its extension API for Firefox to a WebExtensions API, which is "largely compatible with the model used by Chrome and Opera," according to the company, so it will be easier for developers to make extensions across multiple browsers. That's a great thing for users who have favorite extensions that only work on one browser platform.
Developers, however, will have to get their current Firefox extensions validated and signed by Mozilla starting with Firefox 41, slated to be released on September 22nd. Mozilla's reassurance to devs:
Although developers might need to tweak their code to make a Chrome extension compatible with Firefox, the new API will make it easier than before for developers to support both Chrome (and Opera, which uses the same codebase) and Firefox:
Personally, I think this is great and am looking forward to giving Firefox another try. The Next Web reports that Firefox 43 will include the new API and will be released on December 15.