Or maybe not: the Firefox version of the pocket extension is badly baked (you have to wait for the adding animation to disappear otherwise it gets cancelled. The previous version was "click and it's added in the background").

The Chrome version is more usable.

The great firefox redesign at the beginning of the century was about slimming down Mozilla the navigator and let extensions extend the browser. Is that the pendulum going back and forth ?

I think the minimum browser changes over time, but without adding and removing features it's hard to discover what that minimum is.

For example, some form of add or at least popup blocking should be included, but that does not preclude useful addons from customizing the experience.

I was suggestion official extensions, so you could not install or disable them, the reason I mentioned some could be put directly in the browser is if the same functionality can't be done by a pure extension or it would be much efficient directly in the browser.

I completely agree that you should be able to disable/unintall Mozilla extensions and replace them if you want with different ones(maybe you know of a better reader mode or a better ad blocker extension)

In fact this extension may not even be installed , just be part of Mozilla code base so any update will be reviewed

Through reading bug reports, I found out that the FF reviewers for the decentraleyes extension have a custom script to check that all copied scripts are actually identical to the CDN versions. I found that step in the review interesting and positive.

Why are Mozilla and Google the only poeple you trust to maintain extensions? Why don't you or I implement the popular extensions in a user-respecting way?

I don't want to offend the extension creators, I want to option to uninstall an official extension and put my own or a community one but IMO there are reasons to trust Mozilla then a stranger or a community. There were cases where popular extensions were bought and updated with malicious code, because of that I make sure I open bank or paypal website in a private window with extensions blocked but will a regular user know to do this ?

One could always stick to open-source extensions... if Google didn't make developer mode such a painful experience.

I don't think it is about who you trust but who can resource the amount of work required to keep it going? There are thousands of browser extensions, including all of their updates etc.