It’ll mean that Firefox extensions are easier to port to other browsers and vice-versa, along with better overall browser performance and protection from malware for you.
It should have been this way from the beginning. In the bad old 1990s it was common to see a web page prompting to install an "plugin" or "codec" to play back desired content. There were dozens, if not hundreds, of unique plugin+codec combinations which users were conditioned to install to view content. You guessed it, lots of malware exploited this. When Flash video became a defacto standard it actually solved this problem from a user perspective, but we now know that Flash itself is a vector for malware.
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It should have been this way from the beginning. In the bad old 1990s it was common to see a web page prompting to install an "plugin" or "codec" to play back desired content. There were dozens, if not hundreds, of unique plugin+codec combinations which users were conditioned to install to view content. You guessed it, lots of malware exploited this. When Flash video became a defacto standard it actually solved this problem from a user perspective, but we now know that Flash itself is a vector for malware.
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