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How a proprietary extension can get preferential features illustrates that chromium is open source in name only.

• shadowgovt 6y ago
  Hardly. If you look at firefox's source, you will find several extensions that are hard-coded for special handling. This is not new.
  • andrewprock 6y ago
    True, but the distance between Firefox source and Firefox is config+compile. You cannot compile Chrome. I've heard that Chromium can be compiled and run, but I've never actually seen it, or hear of anyone using that professionally.
    • shadowgovt 6y ago
      I'm not sure what your point is... You thought it was weird that an extension would get preferential treatment, and I pointed out that this is true for Firefox also.
      • andrewprock 6y ago
        My point is that you are correct. There are other factors at play which mitigate the preferential treatment, but it's definitely there in Firefox as well.