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mook on Nov 14, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Firefox 57.0 Released

I believe IE also had extensions (the channel bar in Windows 98, and later toolbars and ActiveX that partly lead to Firefox becoming so popular). It certainly didn't have as much flexibility as XUL though!

Yoric on Nov 14, 2017 [–]

That's possible. ActiveX was powerful but... problematic :)

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