Followup: modularity, WebExtensions, and going faster

[Benjamin Smedberg]

On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 6:12 PM, Robert Helmer <rhelmer at mozilla.com> wrote:

>
> I agree. I think our problem is that hacking on Firefox is
> exceptionally hard, and testing+shipping it is too. I don't think
> either of things are hard because there aren't good enough boundaries
> between different components.
>

This is where I think we (Robert and I) fundamentally disagree. I believe
that hacking on Firefox is exceptionally hard *because* there aren't good
boundaries. I think there's a lot to discuss about the nature of those
boundaries: JSMs versus WebExtensions versus future Rust versus HTML
iframes. But we just don't have effective boundaries right now, and that is
one of the reasons why hacking the Firefox frontend is so difficult and
exhausting.

--BDS
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