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What prevents you from writing a patch for Firefox then? After all, it is one of the great advantages of FOSS. At this level of power you'd likely have to change the addon every upgrade anyways.

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> What prevents you from writing a patch for Firefox then?

'I never, never want to write C++.'

Seriously, I can't say how much I want not to write C or C++. Life is too short to use unsafe languages.

because what you are purposing is fork a browser which is only slightly less complicated than fork operating system and involves a major investment in time/money to maintain.

To whatever extent, there have been forks that are still alive today that support XUL extensions. Pale Moon [1] is one of them.

[1]: https://www.palemoon.org/

So would an extension with that kind of power. FWIW, extensions as they are already do require quite a bit of maintenance, and it is also reasonable unlikely that any one source file would be modified in one given update.

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