I just submitted an update to my extension, with a minor change, and for the first time ever (4 years) it is going through a compliance review. The message was that its permissions are too broad, since it will run on every web page. Of course it would be useless if I would limit the permissions. I let the users whitelist or blacklist URLs as they wish.
Posts by Lutter
13 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Jun 2009
Google's Chrome Web Store under fire for shoddy service and cryptic policies
Is! Yahoo! dead?! Why! web! biz! will! rename! to! Altaba! – the! truth!
New Firefox versions will make you activate all new add-ons – except one hacker favourite
Official UN panel findings on embassy-squatter released. Assange: I'm 'vindicated'
OK Google? Firefox to nibble Chrome extensions from 2016
Mozilla releases iOS app version of Firefox browser for world+dog
Wanted: beta testers for El Reg’s Android app
Mozilla's ‘Great or Dead’ philosophy may save bloated blimp Firefox
Firefox the king of add-ons
I have used Mozilla browsers since they were in the alpha stage, but I don't know what Pocket is or who the CEO is. As a developer, the important thing is Firefox/SeaMonkey's outstanding support for creating add-ons, leaving Chrome/Opera and Safari in the dust.
XUL is irrelevant these days unless you have an old add-on to maintain.
The only problem is that Mozilla have volunteer add-on reviewers so the reviews are a bottleneck.
Apple extends idiot-tax operation, makes devs pay to fix Safari snafus

Re: getting better and cheaper for the average dev
I am an exclusive Safari extension developer. Apple now wants to charge me for the same service that Mozilla, Google and Opera provide for free.
Here is the number of extensions in the galleries, counted by me: Chrome 23 585, Firefox 12 841, Thunderbird 1 199, Opera 895, Internet Explorer 858, Seamonkey 714, Safari 484, Firefox for Android 285.