Note that Firefox has had this process for years, for addons with far more power than what Chrome gets you. Sure, it is tedious and could be improved, but the m

Note that Firefox has had this process for years, for addons with far more power than what Chrome gets you. Sure, it is tedious and could be improved, but the model works. Also, I don't think you will have to go through review for extensions not requesting dangerous permissions. For some definition of dangerous :) (I wonder if both models could be implemented simultaneously -- unreviewed extensions with "use at own risk" warnings, and reviewed ones with fine-grained semantic permissions)