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I don’t know. Browsers are already huge beasts, but I feel like their large feature set mostly benefit the cloud services than the user. I am not advocating fo
by jeromenerf 6y ago
I don’t know.
Browsers are already huge beasts, but I feel like their large feature set mostly benefit the cloud services than the user. I am not advocating for even bigger browser, but I would welcome a better local-first integration with surrounding apps.
As of now, extensions are pretty limited in what they can do around the browser UI.
On desktop, extensions can merely add icons to a toolbar and inject content to the current page. Vertical sidebars are gone.
On mobile, it’s even more limited to adding actions to a menu and some background tasks.
Browsers escaped from the crazy and sometimes fragile extension system that could interact with the browser chrome, maybe for the better, but nowadays, they are mostly sandbox screen readers or huge cloud only monoliths à la chromeOS.