Re:How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension wit...
by zenopopovici on Thursday October 22, 2020 @06:11AM
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I did. It’s avaliable for Safari. https://apps.graffino.com
I’m the original author. It happens a while back ago though. I never developed for Chrome again.
Re:How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension wit...
by goldenkey on Thursday October 22, 2020 @06:25AM
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Ah, glad to hear that - its our duty to support better browsers!
Re:How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension wit...
by Fnoord on Thursday October 22, 2020 @07:12AM
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You would think a Google project like Google Chrome would benefit from Google Search.
Re:How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension wit...
by goldenkey on Thursday October 22, 2020 @03:12PM
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Indeed. Here are the relevant links by the way:
Chrome extension search: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/wikipedia%20links
Extension page: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wikipedia-links/mn...
One thing I've noticed is that Chrome's extension search is absolute garbage, and even typing the exact name of my extensions, for example "Wikipedia Section Links" [3], doesn't yield my extension, not even on the first page, and the second page is rather hidden and not obvious. Pretty terrible discovery... Why should we develop for such a hostile ecosystem?
Perhaps I lucked out by developing all my extensions as cross-browser web extensions. I've been submitting them all to as many repositories as I can - Chrome, Mozilla, Edge, and Opera.
I feel bad for the author who doesn't have the ability to move their extension to a different browser. Chrome lock-in is a travesty.
[1] https://churchofthought.org/blog/2020/10/17/coursera-quiz-pr...
[2] https://churchofthought.org/blog/2020/10/15/coursera-playbac...
[3] https://churchofthought.org/blog/2020/01/20/a-simple-webexte...