I'm not much of a FOSS developer but it use to be that if I needed something I would just write an extension or a greasemonkey script. It would mature and other

I'm not much of a FOSS developer but it use to be that if I needed something I would just write an extension or a greasemonkey script. It would mature and others would use it. I couldn't get my web extensions to work properly then they got rejected then I got bored with it. It wasn't good enough to replace the hundreds of truly fantastic extensions we had before. I cant even remember the names! User.script didn't get the love it needed to build a single community. I never upload anything anymore. The way a website should look is entirely different from the way it should look for those regularly using the website. It says Hacker news at the top of this page. It consumes space on my screen. (This isn't a thing worthy of discussion. I just remove it, others can use the script. In top down design hierarchies this kind of stuff takes endless arguing with people who never tried to use it like that but, from a position of ignorance, seem to want to dictate how you use your computer then enforce it. There is nothing FOSS about this aditude) There continue to be lots of FOSS projects that would benefit greatly from browser integration. I was skeptical about Opera's build in bittorrent client at the time. I couldn't imagine such a thing running un-managed. I couldn't have been more wrong. I looked what it was doing after a while and (while not downloading) it was seeding a hundred files in small groups (4-6) at a time, 1-3 kb upload speed. Perfect for rare blocks. It was a tribute to the swarm rather than the parasite I expected it to be. In stead of webtorrents something like: <video src="magnet:?xt=urn:btih:000000007005000000005000003d00000240a607&ws=https://example.com/video.mkv" onerror="src=https://example.com/video.mkv"> would do the trick just fine. The legacy central planning circus would continue to work while the open world of FOSS could move on. I could think of a dozen such examples... Take how hiding complexity is the norm nowadays. Firefox could in stead be an entry point to learn managing a database. Distributed search is also doable if you have this many clients. If webmasters can expose their site search they would do it. Ranking is the only puzzle.