Re:Four years with Google Chrome, and I'm never going back
by mitra on Tuesday September 04, 2012 @12:36AM
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I can't seem to find HTTPS Everywhere or smooth gestures, two of my most used extensions, anywhere on the new chrome web store. It looks like a new walled garden approach to something that was working well the way it was.
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Re:Four years with Google Chrome, and I'm never going back
by aboodman on Tuesday September 04, 2012 @01:12AM
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HTTPS Everywhere: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gcbommkclmclpchllf...
Dunno about Smooth Gestures.
Re:Four years with Google Chrome, and I'm never going back
by lmm on Tuesday September 04, 2012 @07:04AM
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It wasn't working well, and it was as much a walled garden as the chrome approach. XUL extensions were/are very strongly tied to mozilla, and allegedly a cause of its enormous memory leakage.
If you want an open approach look to userjs (e.g. userscripts.org); with a little bit of effort you can make a script that works across FF/chrome/opera/probably others. Of course, you'll still find idiots writing things that only work in firefox.