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I'm increasingly getting the impression that Google would just love extensions to disappear altogether. They probably just added them to get Firefox power users
by fhd2 13y ago
I'm increasingly getting the impression that Google would just love extensions to disappear altogether. They probably just added them to get Firefox power users, now that Chrome is king and they're pushing it like crapware (large scale bundling), they probably don't care anymore.
- lukifer 13y agoThey're walking a fine line, though, because Chrome extensions are the cousins of ChromeOS apps, which is an ecosystem they obviously want to promote. While I've never released any of them, the extensions I've built on on the Chrome API have been a sheer pleasure, if somewhat limited in capability compared to Firefox plugins.
- emilv 13y agoMaybe they should just stop pay for Firefox development if they don't like Firefox. Google pays huge amounts of money to Mozilla.
- tyw 13y agothat's a little bit disingenuous. google pays huge amounts of money to Mozilla to be the default search engine because of the huge amounts of money Mozilla users make google by using google services on a daily basis. it's not like they're propping up a competitor just for the hell of it (or even to avoid anti-trust issues).
- mark_l_watson 13y ago+1 I donated to Mozilla a few days ago, thinking how small my donation was compared to Google. However, Google must make $$ on Firefox hosted searches.
- salient 13y agoWell I can think of at least one extension that they'd love to make disappear for good.