I have no idea, especially about the background of this development.

Enlighten me if you want.

update

OK here some details:

http://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2016/11/23/add-ons-in-2017/

Basically it's FF blocking access to internals like XUL to gain flexibility for future development.

I'd be interested to know if the Komodo IDE is effected from restrictions to XUL...

Cheers Rolf
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In reply to Re^3: mozrepl end of life by LanX
in thread mozrepl end of life by Anonymous Monk

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