I mean, this seems like a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" complaint for the browser makers. Hacker News is constantly bitching that browsers are too slow, too complicated, use too much memory, the attack surface is too big, etc. Imagine how much worse that would be if they also had to support every possible use case instead of shunting a lot of that off into extensions.
Simple answer is for Firefox to come with a full set of their own extensions from which you can choose which to install at any time. No external developers.
Yeh, I don't trust Mozilla as much as I trust gorhill to deliver on a good adblocking experience, or to provide me a robust CSS edit tool like Stylus, or to add Bypass Paywall Clean which allows me to bypass most paywalled news sites. And yes, Firefox is my default and I wouldn't change that for a Chromium skin.
I don't know how to balance that conflict, but I wonder if it would be possible to have a web configurator that lets you pick the features you want and then compiles the executable.
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I mean, this seems like a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" complaint for the browser makers. Hacker News is constantly bitching that browsers are too slow, too complicated, use too much memory, the attack surface is too big, etc. Imagine how much worse that would be if they also had to support every possible use case instead of shunting a lot of that off into extensions.
Simple answer is for Firefox to come with a full set of their own extensions from which you can choose which to install at any time. No external developers.
Yeh, I don't trust Mozilla as much as I trust gorhill to deliver on a good adblocking experience, or to provide me a robust CSS edit tool like Stylus, or to add Bypass Paywall Clean which allows me to bypass most paywalled news sites. And yes, Firefox is my default and I wouldn't change that for a Chromium skin.
I don't know how to balance that conflict, but I wonder if it would be possible to have a web configurator that lets you pick the features you want and then compiles the executable.