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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by shadowgovt on Sunday June 14, 2020 @11:38AM (#23518464)
Hardly. If you look at firefox's source, you will find several extensions that are hard-coded for special handling. This is not new.
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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by andrewprock on Monday June 15, 2020 @11:49AM (#23528687)
True, but the distance between Firefox source and Firefox is config+compile.

You cannot compile Chrome. I've heard that Chromium can be compiled and run, but I've never actually seen it, or hear of anyone using that professionally.

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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by shadowgovt on Monday June 15, 2020 @12:03PM (#23528858)
I'm not sure what your point is... You thought it was weird that an extension would get preferential treatment, and I pointed out that this is true for Firefox also.
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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by andrewprock on Monday June 15, 2020 @12:10PM (#23528949)
My point is that you are correct.

There are other factors at play which mitigate the preferential treatment, but it's definitely there in Firefox as well.

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