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From one staunch supporter of Mozilla to another: 1. Chrome was first to the easy JS addons game. Firefox is playing catch up there with Web Extensions. Did Fi

From one staunch supporter of Mozilla to another: 1. Chrome was first to the easy JS addons game. Firefox is playing catch up there with Web Extensions. Did Firefox basically invent the browser extension? Yeah. But Chrome made it popular and easy to develop 2. Developers are largely moving towards Chrome as their sole browser for testing. Therefore, addons get developed for Chrome first. You also might be experiencing sample bias on the other end of that: PH and HN are developer focused, so Chrome gets more front-page love.

stephenr 10y ago
> Developers are largely moving towards Chrome as their sole browser for testing That's the most depressing thing I've read this week. I'm not saying it's not correct, but it's fucking ridiculous. We just got to a point where there are multiple competitive rendering engines (i.e. they keep each other honest) and front end developers say "eh, fuck it, if it works in chrome thats enough". To the developers who have either a stated, or unstated view of "<site> works best in Chrome": fuck you very much.
nstart 10y ago
Re the bias bit, I do keep checking the featured section of the Firefox extensions. For the longest while, it's been YouTube flash-html5, YouTube all html5, chatzilla, multi links plus. Oh and Gmail notifier. The chrome extensions on the other hand. Speedtest, sharepad (notepad extension), an extension to search for any spoken word in a video (nice!), an extension that highlights vertical rhythm in a web page (cool). I wouldn't say they've seen a lot of variation either but they have some cool tools and that's just the extensions. I do get that I'm probably seeing announcements only on chrome related stuff though. But I wish Firefox would make up for it by tweaking their store to help us find fresh stuff.

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From one staunch supporter of Mozilla to another: 1. Chrome was first to the easy JS addons game. Firefox is playing catch up there with Web Extensions. Did Fi

by nathancahill 10y ago

stephenr 10y ago
> Developers are largely moving towards Chrome as their sole browser for testing That's the most depressing thing I've read this week. I'm not saying it's not correct, but it's fucking ridiculous. We just got to a point where there are multiple competitive rendering engines (i.e. they keep each other honest) and front end developers say "eh, fuck it, if it works in chrome thats enough". To the developers who have either a stated, or unstated view of "<site> works best in Chrome": fuck you very much.
nstart 10y ago
Re the bias bit, I do keep checking the featured section of the Firefox extensions. For the longest while, it's been YouTube flash-html5, YouTube all html5, chatzilla, multi links plus. Oh and Gmail notifier. The chrome extensions on the other hand. Speedtest, sharepad (notepad extension), an extension to search for any spoken word in a video (nice!), an extension that highlights vertical rhythm in a web page (cool). I wouldn't say they've seen a lot of variation either but they have some cool tools and that's just the extensions. I do get that I'm probably seeing announcements only on chrome related stuff though. But I wish Firefox would make up for it by tweaking their store to help us find fresh stuff.