> I wonder if the main obstacle to (actual) cross-browser extensions isn't so much technical but rather political. Normally when browser folk talk about "cross

> I wonder if the main obstacle to (actual) cross-browser extensions isn't so much technical but rather political. Normally when browser folk talk about "cross-browser extensions," we're not focusing on the distributable package so much as the source code. As you suggest, there are a variety of reasons that browsers aren't terribly interested in having a single authoritative distribution channel. For that matter, the packaging format is explicitly not something we intended to discuss in the WebExtensions Community Group[1]. While we diversity in how extensions are marketed and distributed, we want the actual code of the extensions to be as reusable as (reasonably) possible. [1]: https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/ https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/