Come on man your all over the place ! <| sep |> Why does Firefox want to commit suicide ? The main practical advantage of Firefox over Chrome is the more flexible extension API . Firefox extensions can do all sorts of things that are simply impossible in Chrome . That is still going to be the case . WebExtensions is a superset of the Chrome extension API . That is , a whole bunch of new stuff that only Firefox can do is being built atop the basic Chrome API . I really wish that people would focus more on the superset part than the Chrome base part . <| sep |> It was confirmed during PAX West 2015 during the Gearbox panel v ideogamemovielionsgatetel <| sep |> There needs to be a heart emoji in that acronym . <| sep |> AKs ARs aye y ' all , duck !