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Why the extension is targeted for Chrome only! What is so difficult about porting it to Firefox? When you come up with a product for mass user consumption, plea
by bprasanna 7y ago
Why the extension is targeted for Chrome only! What is so difficult about porting it to Firefox? When you come up with a product for mass user consumption, please don't assume everybody use Chrome by default.
When a product is targeted for Windows only, that means the product doesn't make sense to run in Linux. But, if the product is applicable to Linux, and the person or company who developed didn't consider porting it to other platforms, then it is left to the pain of users to find the possibilities to make it run on Linux. Or pray god one day it will be available in Linux.
In case of Extension for browsers, it doesn't make sense for users if the extension says it is targeted for Chrome browser only. Also, most of the extensions developed are not open source, so users don't have a chance to taken an effort to make it run on other browsers.
Hope you consider porting your Extension to support other browsers as well.
- AlphaWeaver 7y agoThis, so much this. Chrome and Firefox both use the WebExtensions standard. There's no reason not to write one extension for both. There are a few incompatibilities here and there but I wrote a FF extension (with around 1K MAUs) that I ported and added Chrome support in less than 2 hours.
- ksun 7y agoThis is a great point -- will look into this. I have to admit I haven't looked into this but agree it's a good idea + probably a quick thing to do!