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Dev tools of a browser are not what a power user focused browser would need. Think more about being able change keyboard shortcuts. Being able to execute small
by funcDropShadow 3y ago
Dev tools of a browser are not what a power user focused browser would need. Think more about being able change keyboard shortcuts. Being able to execute small custom scripts that do stuff with tabs, windows, and pages. Yes I know browser plugins and bookmarklets exist.
But why do bookmarklets run with the security context of the currently opened page? I have one self-written bookmarklet to capture the page title and url into emacs for storing it there. Firefox asks me every time I click on that bookmarklet on a new origin (domain, protocol tuple) whether I want to allow that. With no option to avoid that. I have written this piece of code myself I want to use it to enhance my workflow. There is no need to treat it like any javascript hosted on a CDN, or on a Facebook server.
- thrashh 3y agoWhy? Because a lot of regular people were tricked into running malicious bookmarklets.
- falcor84 3y agoSo could we maybe have them not get any privileges by default, but still work?
- starttoaster 3y agoNo privileges by default is often at odds with the goal of having something work, at least out of the box.