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It's really disappointing for me to hear this, considering that I have been releasing chrome extensions for the past year. [1,2,3] One thing I've noticed is th
by goldenkey 6y ago
It's really disappointing for me to hear this, considering that I have been releasing chrome extensions for the past year. [1,2,3]
One thing I've noticed is that Chrome's extension search is absolute garbage, and even typing the exact name of my extensions, for example "Wikipedia Section Links" [3], doesn't yield my extension, not even on the first page, and the second page is rather hidden and not obvious. Pretty terrible discovery... Why should we develop for such a hostile ecosystem?
Perhaps I lucked out by developing all my extensions as cross-browser web extensions. I've been submitting them all to as many repositories as I can - Chrome, Mozilla, Edge, and Opera.
I feel bad for the author who doesn't have the ability to move their extension to a different browser. Chrome lock-in is a travesty.
[1] https://churchofthought.org/blog/2020/10/17/coursera-quiz-printer-a-cross-browser-webextension/ https://churchofthought.org/blog/2020/10/17/coursera-quiz-pr...
[2] https://churchofthought.org/blog/2020/10/15/coursera-playback-speed-a-cross-browser-webextension/ https://churchofthought.org/blog/2020/10/15/coursera-playbac...
[3] https://churchofthought.org/blog/2020/01/20/a-simple-webextension-for-every-browser-wikipedia-section-links/ https://churchofthought.org/blog/2020/01/20/a-simple-webexte...
- zenopopovici 6y agoI did. It’s avaliable for Safari. https://apps.graffino.com https://apps.graffino.com I’m the original author. It happens a while back ago though. I never developed for Chrome again.
- goldenkey 6y agoAh, glad to hear that - its our duty to support better browsers!
- Fnoord 6y agoYou would think a Google project like Google Chrome would benefit from Google Search.
- goldenkey 6y agoIndeed. Here are the relevant links by the way: Chrome extension search: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/wikipedia%20links https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/wikipedia%20links Extension page: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wikipedia-links/mnkbmdogccajgbjdijhelbdmjcpgpehi?hl=en&gl=US https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wikipedia-links/mn...