Google and Mozilla are failing to support browser extension developers

Re:Google and Mozilla are failing to support browser extensi... by throwaway5389 on Thursday August 01, 2019 @05:36PM (#20588605)

I've experienced slowness / crashes with FF extensions, as some people have described here, annoyingly the problem doesn't seem to be reproducible. I'd optimally like to have 4-5 plugins maximum - key-driven browsing, adblock, CSS overrides and JavaScript injection.

What's the best way to blame / troubleshoot a bad plugin? Because as soon as I add them all I experience 1-2 page crashes/infinity loops per hour

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Re:Google and Mozilla are failing to support browser extensi... by throwawayy1001 on Thursday August 01, 2019 @05:44PM (#20588665)

> What's the best way to blame / troubleshoot a bad plugin?

You don't do that if the plugin is provided for free, you can just say "thanks" or "no thanks", just don't use it / develop your own.

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Re:Google and Mozilla are failing to support browser extensi... by throwaway5389 on Thursday August 01, 2019 @05:56PM (#20588762)

I meant respectfully blame, fwiw. If your plugin crashes my browser and I like the plugin, I'll fix it / send a bug report. If I don't like it, or it's beyond repair, I'll uninstall it.

I have way bigger stones I can grind my axe on, if I ever feel the need.

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